Building Quote by Philip Johnson

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

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice.

— Victor Borge

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony.

— Benedetta Tagliabue

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

— Greg Louganis

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

— John Ruskin

“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

— E.M. Forster

I think I never passed so sad an hour, Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night. The edifice from basement to the…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I think that of my 21 symphonies, each has its own place.

— Alan Hovhaness

Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy…

— Stephen Hough

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

— E. M. Forster

A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are…

— Rem Koolhaas