Quotes of: Beethoven Keyword

Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle.

Thomas Beecham

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

Thomas Beecham

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leopold Stokowski

I have no idea what I'm doin'. I've never seen me.

Mose Allison

Traveling these days has a lot of problems and also it wears you out more.

Mose Allison

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Matthew Shipp

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

When you get to fifty-two food becomes more important than sex.

Tom Lehrer

As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

Frederic Chopin

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.

Horace Silver

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

John Zorn

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

James Levine

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

Kevin Eubanks

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.

Kevin Eubanks

The fact is that great musical pieces take and hold the stage because they provide great emotional experiences.

Sarah Caldwell

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.

Arthur Rubinstein

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

Daniel Barenboim

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

Jeffrey Tate

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Daniel Barenboim

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

Eugene Ormandy