#beethoven

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

#conductor #find #functions #i #led

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#beethoven #i #jackson #like #michael

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. ↗

— Neville Marriner

#even #instruments #late #more #most

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

#believe #his #improvising #one thing #played

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry. ↗

— Ennio Morricone

#beethoven #bernard #did #happens #himself

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. ↗

— Sun Ra

#beethoven #had #money #please #power

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#brahms #concerto #different #each #even

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. ↗

— Nigel Kennedy

#bach #beethoven #egocentric #end #feels

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. ↗

— Ringo Starr

#especially #i #like #poems

And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage. ↗

— Tony Randall

#because #beethoven #crime #everybody #going