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Michael Berkeley's 'Sonata' is very - what can you say - melodious.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Berkeley
Sonata
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My 10th Sonata is a sonata of insects. Insects are born from the sun... they are the sun's kisses.
Alexander Scriabin / Composer
Born
Insects
Kissing
Sun
Sonata
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When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
Albert Hammond, Jr. / Musician
Moonlight
Time Me Song
Favorite
Sonata
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I didn't want to look back in 10 or 20 years and say, 'Yes, I always wanted to write that piano sonata or that novel, but I never had time.'
Stephen Hough /
Time Look Always
Sonata
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My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.
Neil Sedaka / Singer
Chamber
Fingers
Music Always Your
Beethoven
Classical
Sonata
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The first dramatic experience I had of music was when I was five. The electricity had gone out in Georgia, and my mum played the 'Moonlight Sonata' on the piano.
Katie Melua / Singer-Songwriter
Electricity
Georgia
Moonlight
Sonata
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As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write an abstract piano sonata or a concerto, I write what I feel. I'm not a self-conscious composer.
Samuel Barber / Composer
Abstract
Book
Composer
My Own
Self Conscious
Music Feel Never
Concerto
Sonata
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
Irina Shayk / Model
Fingers
Moonlight
Practise
Love Music Your
Beethoven
Sonata
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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.
David Bryan /
Bad Times
Moonlight
Touch
Beethoven
Definitely
Sit
Sonata
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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.
Simon Rattle / Conductor
Each Day
Promise
Sabbatical
Music Myself World
Inexhaustible
Sonata
Treasures
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett / Novelist
Beauty
Handsome
Long
Middle
Phrases
Beginning
Dead
Phrase
Sonata
Sum
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The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.
Alfred Whitney Griswold / Historian
Adam
Computer
Divine
Land
Physics
Ultimate
Finger
Leaps
Mechanical
Poem
Shape
Sonata
Spark
Takes
Whether
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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.
Elliott Carter / Composer
Hotel
Lunch
Barber
Sam
Sonata
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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.
Julian Bream / Guitarist
Formal
Late
Beethoven
Chopin
Mozart
Piece
Quartet
Sonata
String
String Quartet
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
Karl Marlantes / Author
Reading
Serious
War Peace Me
Classics
Several
Sonata
Tolstoy
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In college, when a girlfriend asks you to watch a film in black and white, you do it. That's when I discovered a lot of films. I was really obsessed with Bergman, the whole world he creates. One that I always quote a lot is 'Autumn Sonata.' When you see women go through issues with their mom, you realize how right and poignant Bergman was.
Jonás Cuarón /
Mom
Autumn
Bergman
Black And White
College
Film
Girlfriend
Issues
Obsessed
Poignant
White
Mom Women Always
Creates
Discovered
Watch
Films
Quote
Realize
Sonata
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Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.
Stephen Hough /
Cutting
Labor
Beethoven
Boom
Certain Extent
Extent
Intensely
Meaning Of
Sonata
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