Beethoven Quote by John Cleese

Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you…

— Linda Ronstadt

I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't…

— Alexandra Stoddard

Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people listen to Beethoven as though…

— Simon Rattle

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

— Charles M. Schulz

“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.”

— Sarah Strohmeyer

“Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded…

— W. Somerset Maugham

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I…

— Elie Wiesel

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public…

— Wilhelm Reich

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

— E.M. Forster

“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