Fifth Quote by E. M. Forster

“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

— E.M. Forster

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

— John Ruskin

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he…

— Andrew Schneider

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world...

— Frederic Chopin

Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.

— Fritz Lang

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

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

— George Carlin

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the…

— Joshua Bell

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

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’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself…

— Rodney Mullen

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad…

— Jane Asher