Music Quote by Stormy Smith

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

— E.M. Forster

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.”

— Paul Strathern

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

— Ian Simpson

“...our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

— William Badke

“You can’t sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you’ll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He’s prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety.…

— Robert Shaw

“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.”

— Sarah Strohmeyer

“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”

— Alice Herz Sommer

“And she could play the Beethoven symphony any time she wanted to. It was a queer thing about this music she had heard last…

— Carson McCullers

“When Milton met Beethoven he said 'I've been told that you cannot hear.' And that was true, but Beethoven read Milton's lips and understood…

— Nate Denver

“At that moment a solitary violin struck up. But the music was not dance music; it was more like a song - a solemn,…

— Jennifer Paynter