Beethoven Quotes

187 Beethoven quotes by 152 unique authors

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, I’ve been playing a lot of piano. I’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
Beethoven’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
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. — Gioachino Rossini
Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives. — Bruno Walter
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. — Neville Marriner
As you deal with thumb-crossings, or fingerings for the F-sharp-minor scale, or chromatic scales in double thirds, it is hard to accept that these will… — Jeremy Denk
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play… — Jeremy Denk
... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new… — Itzhak Perlman
... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was… — Yngwie Malmsteen
The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of… — Lorin Maazel
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven embraced the universe with the… — Frederic Chopin
Salieri was a pupil of Gluck. He was born in Italy in 1750 and died in Vienna in 1825. He left Italy when he was… — Cecilia Bartoli

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