Death Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“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

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he…

— Andrew Schneider

“I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire, because it simply refused to lie…

— Alan Bradley

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

— Glenn Gould

“In the main café area next door, Delilah is coming to the end of Moonlight Sonata. The final notes are deep, sad — placed…

— Mark Capell

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

— Oscar Levant

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

“Death is a monster which turns away from the great theatre an attentive hearer before the end of the play which deeply interests him,…

— Giacomo Casanova

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

— Charles Rosen

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

— Bruno Walter

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

— Kurt Vonnegut