Beethoven Quotes

187 Beethoven quotes by 152 unique authors

Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats,… — David Cronenberg
I see less and less... I need to avoid lateral light, which darkens my colors. Nevertheless, I always paint at the times of day most… — Claude Monet
Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wantedto build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy… — Edvard Grieg
I am a master of fiction. I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived. I am to the crime novel in specific what… — James Ellroy
The point of recapitulation in the first movement of the Ninth [Symphony of Beethoven] is one of the most horrifying moments in music, as the… — Susan McClary
I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion. — Alice Herz-Sommer
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys. — Scott Ian
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. — Gioachino Rossini
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance. — Boy George
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. — Edward Kasner
Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is… — Irwin Shaw
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements.… — Maximilian Schell
Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow.It could be… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is a shallow criticism that would define poetry as confined to literary productions in rhyme and meter rhythm. The written poem is only poetry… — John Ruskin
Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice. — Victor Borge
The Germans have four violin concertos. The greatest, most uncompromising is Beethoven’s. The one by Brahms vies with it in seriousness. The richest, the most… — Unknown Author
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. — Leon Botstein
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. — Nigel Kennedy
You have to find your own shtick. A Picasso always looks like Picasso painted it. Hemingway always sounds like Hemingway. A Beethoven symphony always sounds… — Hugh Jackman
During a rehearsal of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony the members of the orchestra were so overwhelmingly moved by the conducting of Arturo Toscanini that they rose… — James Keller
My mind and fingers have worked like the damned. Homer, the Bible, Plato, Locke, Lamartine, Chateaubriand, Beethoven, Bach, Hummel, Mozart, Weber are all around me.… — Franz Liszt
Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point… — Aleister Crowley
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They… — Billy Joel

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