Appreciation Quote by Stephen Hough

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

— Sheila Hancock

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

I think there are very few people that I would give the title of genius to, really, but Beethoven unquestionably is one of them.

— Stephen Hough

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

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

— Simon Rattle

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Glenn Gould

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

— Randy Newman

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

I always see Beethoven as having been influenced by Haydn. Yet he started a revolution - not just to be different, but also because…

— Andris Nelsons

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

— David Canary

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