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How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

— Jerry Garcia

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do,…

— Smokey Robinson

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

Listening to Mozart, we cannot think of any possible improvement.

— George Szell

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

Beethoven and Wagner for many years wrung our hearts. But now we are sated with them and derive much greater pleasure from ideally combining…

— Luigi Russolo

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself…

— Rodney Mullen

“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 with his…

— Haruki Murakami

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

— Thomas Beecham

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

— Michael Tippett

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear…

— Virginia Graham

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek