German Music Quotes

I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from I come from a family in which music was important, especially German music - from Johann Sebastian Bach to Ludwig van Beethoven. I played a lot of piano, mostly Bach. I really loved Glenn Gould's interpretations. to Beethoven. I played a lot of piano, mostly Bach. I really loved Glenn Gould's interpretations.

Germany's fascinating. It's a really rich landscape to film and dramatise.

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude.

I don't think I was ever particularly mean. I can certainly think of some idiotic exchanges I've had. I was accused of destroying pop music, like Wagner destroyed opera - a guy in Germany started ranting that at me.

There is something very powerful about German music. That's why I chose German music with a European meaning for the day of my election.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

I want to do a record with Adam Green of all German schlager songs.

While writing 'The Orientalist,' I played a soundtrack that alternated between ragtime and Azeri mugams, Russian operas and German and Italian pop songs from the 1920s and 30s. When I finally finished, I gorged on all my music from the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

I have eighteen titles in the German language. I had a number one song in 1965.

I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

How can German music not be represented by an article?

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music.

Kraftwerk isn't a band. It's a concept. We call it 'Die Menschmaschine,' which means 'the human machine.'

There's so many German songs which are really popular in Germany that I find really bad. It can quickly border on kitsch pop.

There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry.

We really want to be successful in America, we really want to try it. There are not so many German bands who get the chance to come to America to play.