Cities Quote by Lorin Maazel

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I…

— Andris Nelsons

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

— Glenn Gould

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

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible…

— Shane Koyczan

“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it from genteel,…

— Howard Goodall

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony…

— Johannes Brahms

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

— Andris Nelsons

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and…

— H. L. Mencken

Beethoven's reputation is based entirely on gossip. The middle Beethoven represents a supreme example of a composer on an ego trip.

— Glenn Gould