Bans Quote by Smokey Robinson

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

— Anonymous

I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven.

— Joan Rivers

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

— Tom Stoppard

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

— Andre Previn

Who can do anything after Beethoven?

— Franz Schubert

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

— John Ruskin

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

— William Wyler

“He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto”

— Andy Stanton

I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from…

— Milton Babbitt

“A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.”

— Ian Simpson

We need to bring music to the people, even to those who normally do not listen to classical music.

— Simon Rattle