Clerks Quote by Leon Botstein

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

— Franz Schubert

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

— Randy Newman

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

— Joan Rivers

“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

“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”

— Alice Herz Sommer

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives.

— Bruno Walter

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

— John Ruskin

I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Sheila Hancock