(20 quotes found)
“Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.”
John Ruskin
“I think everyone thinks Beethoven was very anti-social, but I don't think he was.”
Joe Lapchick
“Underneath, (Beethoven) wasn't a bad guy at all.”
“[Indeed, despite a Teutonic accent, Zawinul contradicts stereotypes about his Austrian heritage that he should be playing Mozart and Beethoven.] There is another Austria, ... much less known, and that is the folk music of Austria. Even the way we speak is very musical, like a walking jazz bass. Classical music is so dusty that the dust has dust. And much of jazz is following in the same dusty path, recreating its glories rather than moving forward.”
Joe Zawinul
“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
“There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.”
Wynton Marsalis
“Beethoven was probably better known as an improviser until people started paying attention to his symphonies. Liszt, taking Hungarian folk songs and making them into these orchestral piano fantasies. Bartok used the raw building blocks of popular music as the way he set up major pieces of art. And then Stravinsky would lift them whole cloth.”
Christopher O'Riley
“Even Beethoven didn't get that.”
Anthony Burger
“We're not the type of orchestra that would issue a straight Beethoven CD. We're known for our unique repertoire. Esa-Pekka felt we needed to do Beethoven with a twist.”
Adam Crane
