Dave Brubeck Quotes

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

Mozart combined high formality and playfulness that delights as no other composition in any other medium does.

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

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I also have a big love of classical music played on piano because this is the environment I grew up in my brother being one of the great masters in this world.

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

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

When it comes to songs and music, yeah, people love to sing and dance and play music and tunes, and that stream of consciousness that exists in music, nobody knows where that comes from.

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.

I can take any series of numbers and turn it into music, from Bach to bebop, Herbie Hancock to hip-hop.

Mozart had a tremendously fertile and creative ear for a catchy tune.

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

To have everything written for you... It's not really creating. That's why I think symphony drummers are so limited. They 're limited to exactly what was played a hundred years before them by a thousand other drummers.

Great music was written by the great geniuses, and you want to do it justice.

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer.

Music. It's all creativity right here, right now.

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of what is noblest in the human spirit, the way you find in the music of Mozart and Beethoven and Verdi that wonderful quality that not a note can be changed.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

Well, Mozart is extraordinary not only in that he became virtuoso along the lines of his father, but that he had that compositional gift, that melodic gift. By the time he was four, he was doing piano concertos with harmony in the background.

Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti.

A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for minimal forces.