Best Beethoven Wisdom
187 Beethoven quotes by 152 unique authors
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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
— Michael Tippett
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I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study…
— Kurt Masur
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After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
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The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
— Joshua Bell
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To my mind and ear, there is simply nothing that compares to the musical sophistication of a late Beethoven, Bartok, Schubert or Brahms work for…
— Leonard Slatkin
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When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that Beethoven he'd play that made…
— Christine Anderson
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I hear melodies in my head, Find little notes in my bed, Ive got songs tangled up in my hair, I see piano keys everywhere...…
— Kiara
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Beethoven....composing.....Full Blast.... Shakespeare.....scribbling frantically....No limits.... Michelangelo....the Art....the Dance....Screaming, without a sound.... My Muse.... My very Soul.... Watches me, Giggling, Smiling, Knowing, Hearing, The Song, The…
— Eric Nickel
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Listening to Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven while I write. Its not fair to just call it music; its audible emotion.
— Philip DeFranco
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After recording the Tchaikovsky and Beethoven concertos, I felt that all my ambitions had really come true.
— Vanessa Mae
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High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with goingforward, with considering thesequence of generations a…
— Unknown Author
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I never thought I'd have such a luxurious life. A healthy husband ... beautiful little girl... Jacuzzi and beer and fruitbowl and Beethoven and Mendelssohn…
— Miki Gorman
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