Handel Quotes

• The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Beethoven
  • Brahms
  • Voluptuary

• Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Heaven
  • Position
  • Believes

• I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy...

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Together
  • Happy
  • Sound

• The only work that can be compared to Chopin's Etudes, innovatively, where every note is essential and one becomes completely exposed, is the Brahms-Paganini variations. These are etudes - not as interesting musically as, say, the Brahms-Handel - but they are incredible.

  

  Carlo Grante
  • Interesting
  • Incredibles
  • Essentials

• It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Force
  • Assertion
  • Handel

• I would still love to do more Handel. I think Handel was a fantastic composer. I did lots of Vivaldi, but it's also important to do the music of Handel, one of the greatest composers of the 18th century.

  

  Cecilia Bartoli
  • Important
  • Stills
  • Fantastic