Beethoven Quotes

187 Beethoven quotes by 152 unique authors

When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture of music that… — Frank Lloyd Wright
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical… — Emile M. Cioran
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods. — Ludwig van Beethoven
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And… — Hermann Hesse
I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven. — Joan Rivers
Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of… — David Foster
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world... — Frederic Chopin
The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the… — Marjorie Garber
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and… — Antonio Damasio
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from… — Bo Burnham
If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play… — Kurt Masur
I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as… — Alfred de Musset
A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such… — William James
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I dont understand why this happens in the movie… — Ennio Morricone
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson
I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed… — Kurt Masur
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't… — Kurt Masur
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd. — Greg Louganis
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. — Leonard Slatkin
Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven. — John Cleese
I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so… — Antonio Lobo Antunes
For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the… — Gustavo Dudamel
Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if… — Jane Asher
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh. — Monica Ali

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