Quotes of: Beethoven Keyword

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

Daniel Barenboim

I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.

Eugene Ormandy

With us tonight is William Warfield, who is with us tonight. He is a wonderful man, and so is his wife.

Eugene Ormandy

You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.

Esperanza Spalding

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Esperanza Spalding

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Chuck Mangione

I would much rather have my grotesque products of the imagination compared to your delusional sanity.

Christopher Page

Any gifted child can potentially get in real trouble because of the way they are handled.

Itzhak Perlman

I was sent down to Cuba. Everything had been prepared with the help of Congressman Johnson and his staff.

Erich Leinsdorf

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

Brian Setzer

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

Charles Hazlewood

Stansfield: I like these quiet little moments before the storm. It reminds me of Beethoven.

Léon: The Professional

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

Giorgio Moroder

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Donald Byrd

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

Robert Fripp

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

Art Tatum

...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.

William Badke

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

Wynton Marsalis

There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.

Zubin Mehta

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

Zubin Mehta