Classic music Quote by Simon Rattle

How many Beethovens are there that just for lack of the training, the world doesn't get exposed to.

— Jerry Garcia

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

— John Ruskin

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

— Wynton Marsalis

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 haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world...

— Frederic Chopin

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

— Andre Previn

It is not enough to do a desktop exercise of a Beethoven symphony. You need to practice with an orchestra. The musicians need to…

— Rusty Schweickart

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

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the…

— Joshua Bell

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

— Deepak Chopra

There's always blood on the carpet when I play Beethoven at the piano. I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight…

— Charles Hazlewood

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

— Franz Schubert