Him Quote by Simon Rattle

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Sheila Hancock

“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s centenary—precisely where…

— Russell Martin

Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.

— Simon Rattle

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and…

— H. L. Mencken

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does…

— Joyce Cary

Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise.

— Charles Rosen

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.

— Daniel Barenboim

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

“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

“Even though Beethoven wrote this song when he was depressed about his hearing and was sleeping around with girls, it sounds like a happy…

— Tomoko Ninomiya

I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.

— Andris Nelsons