Events Quote by Elliott Sober

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

— Sheila Hancock

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

— Michael Tippett

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Simon Rattle

“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”

— Alice Herz Sommer

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 would say that Beethoven's late string quartets are the nearest to God that we'll ever get.

— Sheila Hancock

Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them.

— Ralph Vaughan Williams

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

— Frederic Chopin

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would…

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Boy George