Quotes of: Beethoven Keyword

I'm not particularly lucid after a concert. I'm not very lucid before, either.

Leonard Slatkin

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality.

Mose Allison

At this point, I don't listen to other people too much. I'm not really that affected by anyone.

Mose Allison

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York.

Mose Allison

I'm always storing away phrases and ideas and things that I think might turn into songs.

Mose Allison

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Virgil Thomson

They've really got to recognize that all of us bring some of our family issues to work and our work home.

James Levine

We really were a very musical family. Father managed to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument.

Lawrence Welk

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.

Edvard Grieg

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Franz Schubert

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

Dave Brubeck

I think that my past stands me in good stead in that it does have a certain strength for musicians.

John Sebastian

It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.

Daniel Barenboim

I have closed that page of my life without rancor. I do not disown any of the work done.

Riccardo Muti

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

Candy Crowley

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

Eugene Ormandy

I like to read, and I like dance. I don't dance, but I like to see other people dance.

Esperanza Spalding

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Franz Liszt

Sometimes you get from the mouth of kids wonderful things.

Itzhak Perlman

Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.

Itzhak Perlman