a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.
Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.
When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
I'm everything I'm made of. So a part of me is made of classical music. I'm grateful for it.
Classical music presents some of the world's most challenging pieces.
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.
