Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“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

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

“The less number of people like my writing the happier I become. The masses do not understand a symphony too!”

— Avijeet Das

“A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.”

— Ian Simpson

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

— William Badke

“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”

— Alice Herz Sommer

“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

“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

“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 say the same thing about the death of James Wait: "Oh, well - he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway." This…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“There is no greater symphony of self-destruction than the beautifully poisonous melody found in our excuses.”

— Steve Maraboli