Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.” — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair. — Louis Moreau Gottschalk Copy Share Image
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. — Ernest Newman Copy Share Image
“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.” — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff. — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct. — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their… — Seymour Stein Copy Share Image
Beethoven for listening; Liszt, Chopin, and Beethoven for playing as well as Bach and Prokofiev and so on. If I kept going,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
“Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand… — Daniel Bor Copy Share Image
I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must… — Kurt Masur Copy Share Image
On the night of Brexit, while some people were celebrating and others were having wakes, I stayed in and played Beethoven, his… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
Play doesn't have to be a frivolous thing. You may think of a Beethoven symphony as something serious, but it's still being… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
“They both loved piano music and were convinced that Beethoven’s Sonata No. 32 was the absolute pinnacle in the history of music.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be… — Mike Norton Copy Share Image
“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able… — Maynard Solomon Copy Share Image
“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls.… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image
“I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
