Affecting Quote by Daniel Barenboim

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

— Simon Rattle

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

— Sheila Hancock

“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

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson

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

— George Carlin

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because…

— Andris Nelsons

Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.

— Glenn Gould

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

— Michael Tippett

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

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

I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

— Andris Nelsons

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

— John Tavener