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The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.
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Mozart is my first strength.
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I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
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I listen to a lot of medieval music.
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I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
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When I seek another word for 'music', I never find any other word than 'Venice'
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A landscape, torn by mists and clouds, in which I can see ruins of old churches, as well as of Greek temples - that is Brahms.
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I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
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One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
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I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.
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I love listening to classical music.
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Jacian Obregon. It sounds like a melody. Or a tragedy.
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I love the way Monteverdi's opera embodies the triumph of evil love in such a luscious way. The closing love duet is just pure amoral, liquid passion. The Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment sound great in the Albert Hall, and the Glyndebourne cast is fabulous.
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On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.
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If you loved music, you loved Freddie Mercury.
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Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,
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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.
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Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
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The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic.
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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
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Victor Wooten is the Carlos Castaneda of music
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My favorite symphony is the silent song of the night!
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I played classical as a kid.
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Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music would disappear before civilization, before democracy, like mist before the sun.
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A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.
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All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.
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Mozart, prodigal heaven gave thee everything, grace and strength, abundance and moderation, perfect equilibrium.
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Pavarotti is dead and the streets are full of arias,
my brother. Every window a tenor leans,
there are sopranos in the olive branches.
And all across the globe the world
turns to crescendos.
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The Musicians of Bremen
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What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.
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The most widely criticised singers in the history of opera, Maria Callas and Franco Corelli, happen also to be the best singers. I am honoured for being part of their group.
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Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to say. I have been profoundly impressed by all I have heard of his work, but he is a musician of this stature because he is also a great man.
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I love stuff like Mozart.
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artist, musician,
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In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart piano concertos. Only rarely was I able to find the money for such luxuries.
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Liszt was a bit of a rock and roller at heart, but he was a bit of a puritan on his sounds.
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It's a dream come true, and with this music, with this Rossini, it's unbelievable how to express the joy and express the joy of the situation and the joy to play this music, to sing this music, it's really fantastic.
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Midnight, and love, and youth, and Italy!
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He [Vaclav Havel] did love music. And so much about the Czech revolution was about music.
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music was the only beautiful thing he owned
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Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard, cold, postwar flawlessness which I myself wanted to attain-but in an entirely different style, medium ...
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Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
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Every couple weeks I'll listen to Sibelius's Seventh Symphony, just to check in, to see how it's doing. It's doing OK.
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Well, Fellini ... there is always Fellini.
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Mozart died too late rather than too soon.
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Mozart is the incarnation of music.
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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.
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Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
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In my iPod, there are many operas, from A to Z. I have 'Aida' and 'Boheme' and 'Butterfly' and 'Cavalleria'. My passion is for opera, but when I'm in the car, I listen to everything.
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It heartens me to think of Verdi who composed thundering operas in his eighties; Michelangelo who did fine work in his ninetieth year, and Titian, who painted better than ever in his one hundredth.
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When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.
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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.
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Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.
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Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.
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Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.
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It is hard to think of another composer who so perfectly marries form and passion.
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I am a classical music lover - not necessarily the contemporary stuff, but the old stuff.
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What was it that Rilke wrote? That music raised him out of himself, and never returned him to where it had found him, but to a deeper place, somewhere in the unfinished.
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The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.
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A Schubert song, the A-major chord at the opening of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' - such incredible beauty is a mystery, the divinity of music.
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I wanted music very bad this evening, that singing devotchka in the Korova having perhaps started me off. I wanted like a big feast of it before getting my passport stamped, my brothers, at sleep's frontier and the stripy shest lifted to let me through.
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I listen mostly to classical music.
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We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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Bells, the poor man's only music.
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Mozart combines serenity, melancholy, and tragic intensity into one great lyric improvisation. Over it all hovers the greater spirit that is Mozart's - the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering - a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.
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In this time of , music is vital.
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
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A French friend brought over a load of Gainsbourg vinyl and I worked my way through it: by the time I got to L'Histoire De Melody Nelson (1969) I was thinking, 'How can this man have died before I got to know his music?' I was a convert.
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Giovanni always had music running through his head. Moments he experienced in life recalled for him scenes from operas. [Giovanni Tempesta]
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Mozart is the highest, the culminating point that beauty has attained in the sphere of music.
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That night I couldn't sleep at all. Mozart had shown me immortal light, and I now felt as though I were under direct orders from Mozart. He expressed his sadness not only with the minor scale but with the major scale as well.
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Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.
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I felt frustrated by the limitations of rock and the lifestyle of touring around on a bus and playing the same songs over and over. So I went back to school to study music, and one of the things I got into was the Italian opera composer Puccini.
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I sought a great performer who would deeply impress me, and I found Lior Suchard.
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I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.
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It has always been Oscar Peterson. He is my Rachmaninoff.
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Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.
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I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.
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I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] ... You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.
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I am a huge Leonard Cohen person.
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If Mozart were around now he would write a killer rock song.
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A classical LP was playing ...
... Jealous and sweet, this music was, sobbing and gorgeous, muddy and crystal.
But if the right words existed
the music wouldn't need to.
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I'm a huge Marvin Gaye fan.
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My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
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Elvis was the reason I picked up the guitar.
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Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
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Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
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I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.
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Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range,
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Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
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I always have loved the Stradivarius. My teacher, Josef Gingold, he had a Stradivarius. As a treat, he would put it under my chin and let me play a few notes, and I remember that feeling of the overtones, the complexity of the sound. It's like a great wine.
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The present day composer refuses to die.
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Before I go to meet my Maker, I want to use the salt left in my shaker. I want to find out if it's true The Blue Danube is really blue, Before I kiss the world goodbye.
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Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'
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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
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I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.
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I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen and Duran Duran fan.
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Goldberg Variations. The simplicity of the opening aria calmed her nerves. Bach