Music Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

— Richard Wagner

“He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered…

— William Peter Blatty

Richard Wagner: A composer whose music is better than it sounds

— Mark Twain

“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

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

— Sheila Hancock

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton

“What's all this about sin, eh?' 'That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just…

— Anthony Burgess

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic…

— Hans Frank

Wagner always opens you a second breath, and then you go on, and you are absolutely into his musical world, and you can't stop,…

— Andris Nelsons

“They [the critics] deal with Schoenberg’s early works and all their wealth by classifying them, with the music-historical cliché, as late romantic post-Wagnerian. One…

— Anonymous

Wagner exploited all forms of expression at a composer's disposal - harmony, dynamics, orchestration - to the extreme. His music is highly emotional, and…

— Daniel Barenboim