Angel Quote by Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

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

— George Carlin

“He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to…

— Romain Gary

“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

That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite…

— Chris Cornell

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 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

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

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

— Boy George

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

— Sheila Hancock

[Pablo] Picasso was born in my hometown, in Málaga, so I have this of strange connection with his persona and with what he did.…

— Antonio Banderas