Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven. — John Cleese Copy Share Image
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card. — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.” — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.” — William Badke Copy Share Image
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets. — Grace Chatto Copy Share Image
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists. — Jeffrey Tate 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
To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or… — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven… — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
In my younger days, I used to visit record shops and covet boxed sets of Beethoven symphonies, Wagner operas, Bach cantatas, Mozart… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if… — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that Beethoven he'd… — Christine Anderson Copy Share Image
“Beethoven.” Ivy breathed the name as her fingers traced Opus 27, the Moonlight Sonata. A vague memory returned to her. Andrew, years… — Jaime Jo Wright Copy Share Image
“And we're all good, everything is forgiven between Beethoven and me because this is the part of that hasn't changed. In this… — Daisy Whitney Copy Share Image
“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is… — Carolyn Keene Copy Share Image
“… the conjunction of Beethoven’s last symphonic masterpiece with crucial works or events in the lives of so many other outstanding artists… — Harvey Sachs Copy Share Image
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the… — Susan McClary Copy Share Image
Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from… — Luigi Russolo Copy Share Image
“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody. — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
“tourists. "She oughtn't really to go at all," said Mr. Beebe, as they watched her from the window, "and she knows it.… — Various Copy Share Image
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Copy Share Image
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven! — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
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