Poetry Quote by Ringo Starr

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

— Cornel West

I love stuff like Mozart.

— Robin Gibb

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

— Vanessa Mae

Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it…

— Smokey Robinson

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.

— Monica Ali

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

— Sheila Hancock

I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets…

— Joni Mitchell

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

— David Canary

I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.

— Glenn Gould

I love music, I'm very eclectic. On my iPad I have the complete works of Ludwig van Beethoven.

— Bernie Sanders

I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers.

— John Edensor Littlewood