Quote by Daniel Silva

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

— Billy Wilder

“I’ve got this perception of Beethoven where he’s just, like, really pissed all the time. Yeah, ol’ Ludwig, he had a lot to pound…

— Hannah Johnson

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.”

— Paul Strathern

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.

— Leonard Slatkin

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

— E.M. Forster

“Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major personalities of…

— Heinz Linge

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

— Joan Rivers

The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd!

— Adolf Hitler

“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”

— Richard Wagner

“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”

— Alice Herz Sommer

“Strauss! Oh yes, he was so-so. He wrote pretty music- The Blue Danube and Tales from the Vienna Woods. But what is that compared…

— Carolyn Keene