Art Quote by Milan Kundera

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

“Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for kitchen walls. But if…

— Tiffany Madison

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“I say the same thing about the death of James Wait: "Oh, well - he wasn't going to write Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway." This…

— Kurt Vonnegut

When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.

— John McLaughlin

When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.

— Billy Wilder

At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments…

— Nancy Wilson

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

— Lois Lowry