Quote by Mary Kubica

“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

“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and…

— E.M. Forster

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

“Beethoven’s “Leonore Overture.”

— David King

“Beethoven.” Ivy breathed the name as her fingers traced Opus 27, the Moonlight Sonata. A vague memory returned to her. Andrew, years before, whispering…

— Jaime Jo Wright

“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last…

— Carson McCullers

“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear every day…

— Milan Kundera

“A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.”

— Ian Simpson

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

“The key fob played the first bar of Für Elise as I locked the car up. I hoped that Beethoven's ghost was out there…

— Mike Carey

“I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner.”

— Richard Wagner

“You can’t sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you’ll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He’s prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety.…

— Robert Shaw