Art Quote by Charles Rosen

In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big.

— Sheila Hancock

Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.

— Simon Rattle

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does…

— Joyce Cary

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

— Boy George

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

— Daniel Barenboim

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and…

— Stephen Hough

“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art…

— Haruki Murakami

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

— Michael Tippett