“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.” — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. — Leonard Slatkin Copy Share Image
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven! — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop… — Virginia Graham Copy Share Image
If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would… — Smokey Robinson 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
“It is as if you have described a symphony of Beethoven accurately, with all the notes right, and the dynamics, and the… — Timothy Cook Copy Share Image
Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach.… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so… — Lou Reed 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
Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance… — Charles Hazlewood 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
“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was… — Shane Koyczan 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
