Quotes of: Beethoven Keyword

The simple things in life ground me and keep me focused so I'm able to do a good job with what is in front of me.

Kevin Eubanks

I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.

Andre Rieu

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Arthur Rubinstein

Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

Daniel Barenboim

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Zubin Mehta

I wish I could sing. I love singers, but I am way too shy. Scares the hell out of me.

Kevin Eubanks

I wrote it the right way, so it was copied the wrong way right. I mean the right way wrong.

Eugene Ormandy

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

Eugene Ormandy

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.

Esperanza Spalding

Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.

Frederic Chopin

I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.

Charles Hazlewood

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last ten years.

Chuck Mangione

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

Chuck Mangione

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening.

Itzhak Perlman

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Johannes Brahms

The practice of giving an A transports your relationships from the world of measurement into the universe of possibility... This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.

Benjamin Zander

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

Jeffrey Tate

On the grounds of prestigious musical organizations that come and go, New York has the edge.

Jeffrey Tate

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

Daniel Barenboim

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

Donald Byrd

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

Donald Byrd