Thomas Beecham Quotes

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

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.

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?

Shostakovich's final pieces, his quartets, are scratching the surface of another world.

I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

Colour is the touch of the eye, Music to the deaf, A word out of darkness.

Everything we do is music." (Classical Composer)(From: 4'33")

Mozart's music always sounds unburdened, effortless, and light. This is why it unburdens, releases, and liberates us.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times.

Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass!

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

A Haydn symphony had a meaning for the social group that listened to it. A Mahler symphony had a meaning for the man who composed it. Here is the difference between the classical and romantic attitudes to art.

With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.