Concerts Quote by Frederic Chopin

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Andris Nelsons

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

— David Canary

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.

— Justin Chancellor

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

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

— Joan Rivers

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

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

— Sheila Hancock

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible…

— Shane Koyczan

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

— George Carlin