Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Concertos. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Concertos Quotes And Sayings by 91 Authors including Pierre Boulez,Linda Lavin,Leopold Auer,Mick Fleetwood,Daniel Barenboim for you to enjoy and share.

Concertos Quotes : pic 000144642
The first time I came to New York in 1952, I was busy with music. I made the acquaintance at this period with John Cage, and also the acquaintance of Varese for the first time. We were very good friends. He gave me some scores, and we recorded them a little later.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000836833
I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave me pleasure. This was fulfilling somebody else's dream.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000423306
Art begins where technique ends. There can be no real art development before one's technique is firmly established. And a great deal of technical work has to be done before the great works of violin literature, the sonatas and concertos, may be approached.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001237195
At last a dream come true. The Instrument of Instruments.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000891132
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000507497
Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000596787
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000798937
They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music. And that Wilhelm Backhaus's unparalleled performance of the sonata for Decca set the interpretive standard.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001706601
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000501311
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001052809
The new kind of music seems to create not from the heart but from the head. Its composers think rather than feel. They have not the capacity to make their works exalt - they meditate, protest, analyze, reason, calculate and brood, but they do not exalt.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000434502
I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000196478
My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001079996
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000543542
Musical myths speak with authority about our society, its fragility, its strengths, its desires, and its limits. Music becomes a wise version of the utopian messenger, pleasing us with his account of an ideal land but also warning us, in his tones, of all the dangers.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001829841
The Musicians of Bremen
Concertos Quotes : pic 001412775
Concert repertoire is some of the most beautiful music ever written, and I frequently seek out opportunities to perform it.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001442489
Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto gives us for the first time the hideous notion that there can be music that stinks to the ear.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001826404
Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")
Concertos Quotes : pic 001601022
You can find the whole world of a film in one instrument, or you can find a world of sound in the orchestra.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000261941
It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001165763
Mozart is waiting for me. Pablo is waiting for me.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000812792
'American Music' is an inventive, passionate, pithy novel whose major theme is love itself and whose minor theme, music, is an emotional, meaningful counterpoint. Like Count Basie and His Orchestra, this book swings.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000114186
In my dreams of Heaven, I always see the great Masters gathered in a huge hall in which they all reside. Only Mozart has his own suite.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000870154
The Steinway piano is such an incomparable instrument. Due to its virtues, I am able to express all my musical feelings.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001852004
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000939941
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001819135
Music: what so many sentences aspire to be.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000884033
Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation,
but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000667257
The piano is really the featured instrument of a 10-piece chamber orchestra. The construction is the harmonic language.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000844601
I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000896086
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001736777
Remember the music is not in the piano.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001205490
To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000466108
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001450170
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000300252
Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000255965
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001119934
Beethoven's music is music about music.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000466059
Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000556064
The melody of music!
Concertos Quotes : pic 001084519
Experimental music scores are enigmatic, opaque, demanding, irritating, humorous, childlike; the best, like Cardew's Treatise, are also inspiring, giving rise, on occasion, to a music of vitality, intelligence and elegance.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000080725
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
Concertos Quotes : pic 000698662
The virtuosos look to the students of the world to do their share in the education of the great musical public. Do not waste your time with music that is trite or ignoble. Life is too short to spend it wandering in the barren Saharas of musical trash.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001069374
The strings all soar,
The reeds implore,
The brasses roar with notes galore.
It's music that we all adore
It's what we go to concerts for.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001683008
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001463584
Dagny listened to the Fourth Concerto, her head thrown back, her eyes closed. She lay half-stretched across the corner of a couch, her body relaxed and still; but tension stressed the shape of her mouth on her motionless face, a sensual shape drawn in lines of longing.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001729732
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000082811
I'm not really a pianist.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001256114
In the 1950s in the United States, few music lovers were listening to chamber music. Daddy played Bach and Haydn on our phonograph for me. Not only did I become familiar with the form; he discussed the concerti. My own head start. My own Head Start.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001457868
If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001035161
Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000473142
The conception, composition, practice, and performance of a piece of music can blossom in a single moment.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001040277
I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000049745
Jutta drags herself closer; she watches her brother with outsize eyes. A piano chases the violins. Then woodwinds. The strings sprint, woodwinds fluttering behind. More instruments join in. Flutes? Harps? The song races, seems to loop back over itself. "Werner?" Jutta whispers. He blinks;
Concertos Quotes : pic 000276541
The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001450623
Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000115065
The cause of freedom, in music as elsewhere, is now very nearly triumphant; but at a time when its adversaries were many and powerful, we can hardly imagine the sacred bridge of liberty kept by a more stalwart trio than Schubert the Armorer, Chopin the Refiner, and Liszt the Thunderer.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001198645
the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001029948
In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000883476
How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand ...
Concertos Quotes : pic 001096481
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000779534
Instrumental music can spread the international language.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001759119
It has endless possibilities, and but what we do with our arrangements, we move the borders of cello playing and discover new ways of new techniques of cello playing.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001101076
There is nothing is more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all that book which, alas, musicians read but too little - the book of Nature.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000904747
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000775282
The beauty of a piece of music is not in its technique but in the Soul of its creator; nor is it in the
sound vibrations of the piece but in the silence of the Light from which the sound springs.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001286518
Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
Concertos Quotes : pic 001400964
Music is about the performance.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000967631
Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001354144
The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as the one art peculiarly representative of our modern world, with its intense life, complex civilization, and feverish self-consciousness.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000466058
Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000053122
Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001063130
How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001522118
Steinway is the only piano on which the pianist can do everything he wants. And everything he dreams.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001225642
To me, the piano in itself is an orchestra.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001737585
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001432673
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg: I have it in my pocket.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000196457
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000861625
You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001698671
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000639712
You need to express things stronger today, more so than in the Baroque time, and you need to expand the expressiveness of the instrument.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000470012
This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000204216
The performing musician was now expected to write and create for two very different spaces: the live venue, and the device that could play a recording or receive a transmission. Socially and acoustically, these spaces were worlds apart. But the compositions were expected to be the same!
Concertos Quotes : pic 000436111
Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001067940
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000809213
The essence of higher instrumental music lays herein that one is able to express in tones that what one is unable to say in words.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001709512
Your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001206372
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000422050
There is music you never hear unless you play it yourself.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000969770
Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000184403
As I came to New York, it was for me a new beginning. To discover what people are living here. What do they need, what do they expect, what would they like to be the image and the performance of the New York Philharmonic?
Concertos Quotes : pic 001578491
all this Beethoven and rain
Concertos Quotes : pic 000458104
We made music seated on the grass of Brasilia's super-squares, at home, at college. It was a creative time, more ingenuous, when the people amused more themselves, played more.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000996434
I was trained in classical piano, but it kind of dawned on me that classical pianists compete for six job openings a year, and the rest of us get to play 'Blue Moon' in a hotel lobby.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001188425
A symphony is no joke.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000621997
The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.
Concertos Quotes : pic 000952770
Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001328421
I don't like piano solos.
Concertos Quotes : pic 001051837
There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'