“Most likely, my film could have been compared to a highly sensible musical clip. An operatic musical clip. At that time, I had no idea of this expression. I did not puzzle my head over the form of my film, the structure arose, as I said before, from alone and urged me to commit this structure to paper. Indications, suggestions, just sufficed. The audience should have the liberty to keep on thinking, conceiving, living. My film had to remain a fragment. Abstract it its form. Yet harmonical and first hand. It would have never occurred to me to lash up what I wanted to express into a waist coat of idiotically trimmed up film plots for the audience: with their meticulous and dictarioral logic and continutity. The attempt to wedge Paganini into the usual form of a movie, would have resulted in immuring him alive. For he did live – in me.” MusicCinemaViolinScript WritingFragmentPaganiniKinski Book:Paganini (Heyne allgemeine Reihe) Source: Paganini (Heyne allgemeine Reihe)
“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.” InterestingEssentialsNotesIncrediblesExposedVariationBrahmsHandelPaganini Author:Carlo Grante
“Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.” MadePiecesMusicianThemeSpokesMisunderstoodRaptureRachmaninoffPaganini Author:Joni Mitchell
“Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.” Paganini Author:Vanessa Mae
“On December 12, 1829, Paganini wrote his friend Germi: "The variations I've composed on the graceful Neapolitan ditty, 'Oh Mamma, Mama Cara,' outshine everything. I can't describe it!" He was writing from Karlsruhe, in the midst of his triumphal tour through Germany. That letter marks the earliest known mention of the variations that would become famous as "The Carnival of Venice." At the time of his letter, Paganini had already performed the piece in at least four concerts. From then on, it would be one of his most popular compositions.” WritingI CanWould BeFriendshipKnownPiecesFourFameLettersMarkGermanyMidstConcertsCompositionVariationMamaDecemberVeniceCarnivalsPaganini Author:Niccolo Paganini
“Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs.” ThinkingWayGuyMy OwnMusicInfluenceHugeAreasInfluentialVivaldiPaganini Author:Yngwie Malmsteen