Music Quote by Howard Goodall

“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

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and…

— H. L. Mencken

“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

“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

“That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able to evoke…

— Maynard Solomon

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

— Sheila Hancock

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does…

— Joyce Cary

“music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. I become confounded…

— Leo Tolstoy

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

— Glenn Gould

Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony…

— Daniel Barenboim

“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell somewhere on…

— Designing the Mind