Desktop Quote by Rusty Schweickart

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

— Andre Previn

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony…

— Charles Hazlewood

If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.

— William Wyler

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

— Glen Campbell

“I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer,…

— Isaac Asimov

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

— Andre Previn

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

— Simon Rattle

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely…

— Stephen Hough

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

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!

— Charles Hazlewood

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

— Ludwig van Beethoven