Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he…

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

“Beethoven wrote Für Elise around 1810, though Elise was actually supposed to be Therese, a woman he was to marry in the same year.…

— Mary Kubica

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.…

— Billy Joel

“Cher and share alike. At least in sound. Most of the decisions I make are sound, exactly like Beethoven when he wrote and discarded…

— Jarod Kintz

And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by…

— Victor Borge

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

— E.M. Forster

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I…

— Elie Wiesel

“Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able to evoke…

— Maynard Solomon

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to…

— Kurt Masur

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public…

— Wilhelm Reich