Age Quote by Bill Walton

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

— Sheila Hancock

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

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

— Simon Rattle

“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…

— Russell Martin

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

— Stephen Hough

And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by…

— Victor Borge

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

— Ringo Starr

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

— Boy George

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

Deep down, classical Romantic music is what I love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky, the Romantics.

— Ramin Djawadi

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

— Bruno Walter

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

— Billy Cannon