Quote by Jan Swafford

“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and…

— E.M. Forster

“You can’t sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you’ll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He’s prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety.…

— Robert Shaw

“One of Beethoven’s biographers listed the three greatest and hardest human tasks as heroism, childbirth, and creative work. For”

— Peter Kreeft

“the triumph cant be had without the struggle”

— Wilma Rudolph

“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

“Beethoven speaking to royalty: "What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…

— Beethoven

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

“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

IT GOES SOMTHING LIKE THIS: AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER. HE QUOTED: OH WHAT IS IT, OR WHAT IT MUST BE LIKE, OR…

— LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

“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

“The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have…

— Pierre de Courbertin

“And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.”

— Kurt Vonnegut