Brahms Quotes

Brahms' Variations are better than mine, but mine were written before his.

The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.