Beethoven Quote by Franz Schubert

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

— Randy Newman

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

— Bruno Walter

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

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

— Bruno Walter

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'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

— Johannes Brahms

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

— Sheila Hancock

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

— Stephen Hough