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I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. — Kiana Tom
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The… — Kurt Vonnegut
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. — Billy Wilder
I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg… — John Zorn
I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings, mostly choral music; also some… — Colm Toibin
It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven… — Albert Einstein
If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in other denominations and… — Brennan Manning
I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the… — Tom Stoppard
Where do I get my ideas from? You might as well have asked that of Beethoven. He was goofing around in Germany like everybody else,… — Kurt Vonnegut
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
all this Beethoven and rain — Michael Ondaatje
If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God. — H. L. Mencken
I believe in God, Mozart and Beethoven, and likewise their disciples and apostles; - I believe in the Holy Spirit and the truth of the… — Richard Wagner
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is… — Milan Kundera
Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like… — Douglas Adams
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of… — Virginia Woolf
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear… — Elie Wiesel
Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of quotes and turn them into a… — Jennifer Estep
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a… — Anne Fadiman
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven! — Ludwig van Beethoven
One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did Beethoven… — Charles M. Schulz
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to… — Tim Dorsey
What are you listening to?" "I picked up a DVD for Luke while I was out. Something with Mozart and sock puppets." A grin rose… — Lisa Kleypas

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