Beethoven Quote by Glenn Gould

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

— Sheila Hancock

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

— George Carlin

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

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I…

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Simon Rattle

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

— Boy George

“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art…

— Haruki Murakami

“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it from genteel,…

— Howard Goodall

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

“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s centenary—precisely where…

— Russell Martin

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

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan