“Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.”
Chuck Berry
“I remember when we did the Tchaikovsky (concerto), he just flew. We weren't used to that. But when we do things like that, it makes the orchestra grow.”
Mark Thielen
“Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.”
Vanessa Mae
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Albert Einstein
“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”
James Brown
“You played very well but I would like you to take the Fourth Sonata of Beethoven and figure it out for yourself.”
Leonard Rose
“Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.”
Nigel Kennedy
