"It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven……" — H. L. Mencken

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• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will… — Ludwig van Beethoven
• If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to… — Jack Black
• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven… — Johannes Brahms
• When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can… — Dave Brubeck
• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
• Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter. — George Carlin
• All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to… — H. L. Mencken
• You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio. — Deepak Chopra
• Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms… — Henri Frederic Amiel
• How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
• [Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. — Henry Adams

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