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
I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll… — Rachel Miner 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
“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
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is. — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
I would say that Beethoven's late string quartets are the nearest to God that we'll ever get. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since… — A. R. Rahman Copy Share Image
The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I'm not a culture snob. So while, of course, I think the Mozart 'Requiem' or, say, Beethoven's 'Ninth' are some of the… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
“I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
“And the goblins--they had not really been there at all? They were only the phantoms of cowardice and unbelief? One healthy human… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert… — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a… — Charles Hazlewood Copy Share Image
I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art.… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.” — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which… — Edvard Grieg Copy Share Image
