When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth. — John Tavener Copy Share Image
“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. — Gioachino Rossini Copy Share Image
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle Copy Share Image
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range. — Artur Schnabel Copy Share Image
“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.” — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. — Zubin Mehta Copy Share Image
I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven. — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.” — Ian Simpson Copy Share Image
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. — Charles Rosen 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
In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them.… — John Tavener 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
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that… — John Zorn Copy Share Image
One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..."… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait: "Oh, well - he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini… — James Keller Copy Share Image
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I… — Romain Rolland 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
“[To be a master] means that he must renounce everything personal, that he must be alone, that he must have no friends,… — Jiri Weil Copy Share Image
“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s… — Russell Martin Copy Share Image
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