all this Beethoven and rain
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
I listen to music. I particularly love Mozart.
I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas and passion of a late Beethoven string quartet, or for that matter the beautiful mellifluous poetry of a Chopin Ballade.
I love music. I have a fondness for Chopin, and I very much like his 'Raindrop Prelude.'
I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.
My muse has always been the piano.
I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
Mozart is sweet sunshine.
The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years.
Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
