Beethoven Quotes

187 Beethoven quotes by 152 unique authors

...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one about how a great wine… — Arthur Rubinstein
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine… — H. L. Mencken
Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are… — Unknown Author
The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled… — Ernest Newman
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven — Gary Oldman
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach,… — Charles Mingus
In my spare time, Iâ€™ve been playing a lot of piano. Iâ€™m trying to learn classical piano, Mozart and Beethoven and stuff. I took lessons… — Evan Peters
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint
Beethovenâ€™s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself into… — Rodney Mullen
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just… — Tony Randall
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time. — David Canary
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics — Bill Walton
How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great… — Edward Abbey
What do we teach our children? . . . We should say to each of them: Do you know what you are? You are a… — Pablo Casals
Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them. — Ralph Vaughan Williams
The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged… — George Bernard Shaw
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars. — Robertson Davies
Who can do anything after Beethoven? — Franz Schubert
My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I… — Antonin Dvorak

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