Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto.
Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque?
When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.
Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
I love stuff like Mozart.
I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
The violin sings.
I like - I actually love classical music very much.
It's nice not to have the majority of the attention on me like there is when playing a concerto with an orchestra.
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.
I listen mostly to classical music.
I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.
There are many collaborations I'd like to explore. One is to co-write a rap concerto with Eminem.
I play a lot of classical music around the house.
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach.
I love gentle, gorgeous classical music such as Mozart.
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
Classical music can rock you!
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
The way it works: The orchestra plays a few selections of its own and I terminate the first part of the programme on piano, usually with a movement from a Mozart concerto.
In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.
