Beethoven Quote by Andre Previn

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

— Gustav Mahler

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

— Andre Previn

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to…

— Rusty Schweickart

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does…

— Joyce Cary

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

— William Wyler

I'd be much more likely to watch the latest Tarantino movie than to listen to a Mahler symphony.

— Simon Rattle

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

We can't afford big symphonies but we commission works that sound rich and symphonic because of the nature of the instrumentation and the people…

— Graeme Murphy

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

My teachers said, 'Always keep a Beethoven sonata under your fingers.' I always have. I still play chamber music, and I always play classical.

— Neil Sedaka