Quotes of: Beethoven Keyword

I am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.

Zubin Mehta

I knew at university that medicine was just not for me. I saved many lives by not being a doctor!

Zubin Mehta

I always try hard to arrange all media in a way so that it expresses what I want - this is not limited to one medium alone and varies from case to case.

Alva Noto

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

Melissa Etheridge

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

Neville Marriner

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

Neville Marriner

The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less.

Neville Marriner

I'm not shy in the spotlight. I might seem austere and even arrogant, but far from it, I'm actually shy.

Riccardo Muti

I don't want to bother them and ruin the party they are preparing so carefully at La Scala.

Riccardo Muti

Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country.

Kevin Eubanks

I'll know I'm reaching the total American market when I'm asked to do a video for MTV.

Leonard Slatkin

I can't judge my own stuff. That's for others. But those are the three things that I admire.

Mose Allison

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Kevin Eubanks

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

Carla Bley

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

Leonard Slatkin

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Jane Asher

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Lawrence Welk

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Donald Byrd

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.

Frederic Chopin

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Thomas Beecham

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

John Zorn