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title: "240 Beethoven Quotes by 186 authors"
description: "Browse 240 Beethoven quotes by 186 authors. Discover the best Beethoven sayings and thoughts."
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> [I like Beethoven, especially the poems.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ringo-starr/i-like-beethoven-especially-the-poems/)

[Ringo Starr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ringo-starr/)

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> [“I'm not Beethoven!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-garcia/i-m-not-beethoven/)

[Jerry Garcia](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-garcia/)

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> [all this Beethoven and rain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-ondaatje/all-this-beethoven-and-rain/)

[Michael Ondaatje](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-ondaatje/)

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> [“Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-king/beethoven-s-leonore-overture/)

[David King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-king/)

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> [“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-herz-sommer-2/beethoven-he-is-a-miracle/)

[Alice Herz Sommer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-herz-sommer-2/)

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> [Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-walter/napoleon-is-dead-but-beethoven-lives/)

[Bruno Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-walter/)

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> [Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bruno-walter/napolean-is-dead-but-beethoven-lives/)

[Bruno Walter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bruno-walter/)

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> [Who can do anything after Beethoven?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/franz-schubert/who-can-do-anything-after-beethoven/)

[Franz Schubert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/franz-schubert/)

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> [When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-walton/when-i-think-of-boris-diaw-i-think-of-beethoven-in-the-age-of-the/)

[Bill Walton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-walton/)

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> [You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andre-previn/you-can-chase-a-beethoven-symphony-all-your-life-and-never-catch-up/)

[Andre Previn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andre-previn/)

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> [ Undoubtedly \[Beethoven's\] music often verges on kitsch ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/slavoj-i-ek/undoubtedly-beethoven-s-music-often-verges-on-kitsch/)

[Slavoj Žižek](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/slavoj-i-ek/)

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> [I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-tavener/i-don-t-think-beethoven-expresses-religious-truth-he-expresses-a/)

[John Tavener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-tavener/)

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> [You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/you-are-no-more-in-your-body-than-beethoven-is-inside-your-radio/)

[Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/)

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> [“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/oh-well-he-wasn-t-going-to-write-the-beethoven-s-ninth-symphony-anyway/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-van-beethoven/beethoven-can-write-music-thank-god-but-he-can-do-nothing-else-on/)

[Ludwig van Beethoven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-van-beethoven/)

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> [Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gioachino-rossini/beethoven-i-take-twice-a-week-haydn-four-times-and-mozart-every-day/)

[Gioachino Rossini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gioachino-rossini/)

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> [Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frederic-chopin/bach-is-an-astronomer-discovering-the-most-marvellous-stars-beethoven/)

[Frederic Chopin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frederic-chopin/)

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> [If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/simon-rattle/if-anyone-has-conducted-a-beethoven-performance-and-then-doesn-t-have/)

[Simon Rattle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/simon-rattle/)

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> [Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/artur-schnabel/mozart-is-a-garden-schubert-is-a-forest-in-light-and-shade-but/)

[Artur Schnabel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/artur-schnabel/)

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> [“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-adams/he-supposed-that-except-musicians-every-one-thought-beethoven-a-bore/)

[Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-adams/)

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> [After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zubin-mehta/after-conducting-wagner-beethoven-s-triple-concerto-is-like-taking-an/)

[Zubin Mehta](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zubin-mehta/)

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> [I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bernie-sanders/i-love-music-i-m-very-eclectic-on-my-ipad-i-have-the-complete-works/)

[Bernie Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bernie-sanders/)

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> [“A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-simpson/a-burst-of-beethoven-that-would-have-made-the-composer-glad-he-was/)

[Ian Simpson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-simpson/)

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> [Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-rosen/beethoven-in-c-minor-has-come-to-symbolize-his-artistic-character/)

[Charles Rosen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-rosen/)

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> [It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-barenboim/it-s-funny-because-in-1970-i-met-the-beatles-quite-by-a-chance-at-a/)

[Daniel Barenboim](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-barenboim/)

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> [In his late quartets, Beethoven introduces an element that shouldn't be there, that should be left for meditation, though I love them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-tavener/in-his-late-quartets-beethoven-introduces-an-element-that-shouldn-t/)

[John Tavener](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-tavener/)

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> [The only thing that interests me in music is to be able to reach into the, let's call it, 'collective unconscious' of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gian-carlo-menotti/the-only-thing-that-interests-me-in-music-is-to-be-able-to-reach-into/)

[Gian Carlo Menotti](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gian-carlo-menotti/)

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> [The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-feelings-that-beethoven-put-into-his-music-were-the-feelings-of-a/)

[H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/)

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> [I think that the existence of Beethoven is remarkable, but I do not bristle at the suggestion that this event had a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elliott-sober/i-think-that-the-existence-of-beethoven-is-remarkable-but-i-do-not/)

[Elliott Sober](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elliott-sober/)

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> [I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-zorn/i-put-together-the-influences-of-my-life-in-as-clear-a-way-as-i/)

[John Zorn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-zorn/)

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> [One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..."…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-m-schulz/one-of-beethoven-s-favorite-dishes-was-macaroni-and-cheese-the-girl-i/)

[Charles M. Schulz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-m-schulz/)

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> [“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait: "Oh, well - he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kurt-vonnegut/i-say-the-same-thing-about-the-death-of-james-wait-oh-well-he-wasn-t/)

[Kurt Vonnegut](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kurt-vonnegut/)

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> [During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-keller/during-a-rehearsal-of-beethoven-s-ninth-symphony-the-members-of-the/)

[James Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-keller/)

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> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/haruki-murakami/a-deaf-composer-s-like-a-cook-who-s-lost-his-sense-of-taste-a-frog/)

[Haruki Murakami](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/haruki-murakami/)

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> [“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-visualized-myself-at-norma-s-house-stretched-out-on-her-couch-my/)

[Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/)

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> [His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/romain-rolland/his-swami-vivekananda-words-are-great-music-phrases-in-the-style-of/)

[Romain Rolland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/romain-rolland/)

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> [“Well, what do you think? Avanti?" "Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vikram-seth/well-what-do-you-think-avanti-avanti-cries-everyone-and-after-a-few/)

[Vikram Seth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vikram-seth/)

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> [ “\[To be a master\] means that he must renounce everything personal, that he must be alone, that he must have no friends,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jiri-weil/to-be-a-master-means-that-he-must-renounce-everything-personal-that/)

[Jiri Weil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jiri-weil/)

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> [“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/he-was-playing-his-life-his-whole-being-was-gliding-over-the-strings/)

[Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/)

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> [“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/russell-martin/two-decades-later-ferdinand-hiller-had-proposed-in-a-long-essay/)

[Russell Martin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/russell-martin/)

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## Top authors on Beethoven

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b007/author-daniel-barenboim-26378.jpg) Daniel Barenboim 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beethoven/daniel-barenboim/)

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                        "text": "“Well, what do you think? Avanti?\" \"Avanti,\" cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re-initialisings of our hearts, we enter the slow theme-and-variations movement. How good it is to pay this quintet, to play it, not to work at it - to play for our own joy, with no need to convey anything to anyone outside our ring of recreation, with no expectation of a future stage, of the too-immediate sop of applause. The quintet exists without us yet cannot exist without us. It sings to us, we sing into it, and somehow, through these little black and white insects clustering along five thin lines, the man who deafly transfigured what he so many years earlier had hearingly composed speaks into us across land and water and ten generations, and fills us here with sadness, here with amazed delight.”",
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                        "text": "“[To be a master] means that he must renounce everything personal, that he must be alone, that he must have no friends, that he must be inscrutable and inaccessible even at home among his family, even at parties and dinners. All that remains for him is music; it always helps when he feels tired; it offers peace and contentment; the tensions of the day melt away in it. He remembers listening to Beethoven's Fourth after the Night of the Long Knives, remembers how it gave him strength to carry on, to continue interrogating enemies and beating confessions out of them. The music cleansed everything that time, even the blood.”",
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                        "text": "“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again. I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.”",
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                        "text": "“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s centenary—precisely where the light of his genius shone most brightly. He had concluded that the fundamental brilliance of the master’s music was that it achieved softness without weakness, enthusiasm without hollowness, longing without sentimentality, passion without madness. He is deep but never turgid, pleasant but never insipid, lofty but never bombastic. In the expression of love, fervent, tender, overflowing, but never with ignoble sensuality. He can be cordial, cheerful, joyful to extravagance, to excess—never to vulgarity. In the deepest suffering he does not lose himself—he triumphs over it. . . . More universal effects have been achieved by others, but none more deep or noble. No, we may say without exaggeration that never did an artist live whose creations were so truly new—his sphere was the unforeseen.”",
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