When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics
Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.
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.
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
I've got great joy from rediscovering Western music. I love Schumann and Chopin, and those amazing symphonies of Bruckner.
I have no idea what was the first record I ever bought, but I think I asked my mom to buy me... um... a collection of Beethoven when I was a little girl because I became very addicted to his music. It might have been piano sonatas.
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
I loved a lot of the romantic composers.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.
There's so many different ways to play Mozart.
No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
Even in classical music, the cello doesn't get a lot of respect because the piano and the violin get it all.
