Bags Quote by John Ruskin

I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world...

— Frederic Chopin

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

— Sheila Hancock

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch

— Slavoj Žižek

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and…

— Stephen Hough

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

— David Canary

I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that…

— Zaytoven

“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

— E.M. Forster

“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

I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.

— Simon Rattle

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

— E. M. Forster