Always Quote by Andris Nelsons

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.

— Sheila Hancock

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.

— Simon Rattle

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and…

— Stephen Hough

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony…

— Johannes Brahms

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony…

— Daniel Barenboim

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions…

— Daniel Barenboim

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

— Randy Newman

It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new…

— Sergei Prokofiev

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson