Art Quote by Alexandra Stoddard

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's…

— Douglas Adams

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you…

— Linda Ronstadt

Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven.

— John Cleese

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though…

— Simon Rattle

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

— Richard Wagner

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.

— Richard Hyung-ki Joo

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

— Joshua Bell

I'm trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons when I was younger and now I sort of sight…

— Evan Peters

How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the…

— Edward Abbey

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

— Ernest Newman

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea,…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.

— Edvard Grieg

“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is that compared…

— Carolyn Keene