Beethoven Quote by Henry Adams

[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.

— Henry Adams

“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.”

— Paul Strathern

“When every other facet of my life was a mess, music stayed true as math.”

— Jennifer Echols

“Mozart creates a universe out of pleasantries.”

— Rae Armantrout

“I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer,…

— Isaac Asimov

“Just like life. Each person was like one line of music, but nobody knew what the symphony sounded like. Only the conductor had the…

— Janet Fitch

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to…

— Romain Gary

“...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

— William Badke

“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they are; that…

— E.M. Forster

“I think that if Mozart were alive today and decided to become a novelist, he would write humorous fantasy.”

— Frank P. Ryan