When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.
Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.
I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
I loved a lot of the romantic composers.
There's so many different ways to play Mozart.
I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
