People Quote by Randy Newman Download Open image “People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.” — Randy Newman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
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 Copy Share Image
“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell somewhere on… — Designing the Mind Copy Share Image
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. — Michael Tippett Copy Share Image
I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because… — Andris Nelsons Copy Share Image
In my early music-loving days, I thought Beethoven was a bit bombastic, a bit heroic, a bit, well, big. — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them. — Stephen Hough Copy Share Image
I think in most cases, unless you're writing about a character who is garrulous, you say what you've got to say and then get… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
The best of my songs are more than just a joke. There's something else going on - a character, or it's not just a… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If getting on the radio was a major motivation, I'd be one of the worst writers of all time. I admire people who do… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If I were to die tomorrow, I think they'd say Newman 56, composer of the hit song, Short People. Jumped off a mountain today. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else. — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time,… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
Some fools in the desert with nothing to do...invented me, and they invented you. And other fools keep it all going and growing. Everybody,… — Randy Newman Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
