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Beethoven Quotes by Ernest Newman
- 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…
- Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.
More Beethoven Quotes
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
- What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black
- Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the… — Johannes Brahms
- When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that… — Dave Brubeck
- Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
- Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter. — George Carlin
- All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini… — H. L. Mencken
- You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio. — Deepak Chopra
- Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air… — Henri Frederic Amiel
- How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
- [Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams