Beethoven Quote by Daniel Barenboim

Music creates order out of chaos.

— Yehudi Menuhin

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony…

— Daniel Barenboim

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony…

— Johannes Brahms

I call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is…

— Frans de Waal

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one,…

— Igor Stravinsky

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 his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible…

— Shane Koyczan

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

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

— Charles Rosen

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary