"Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf……" — Thomas Beecham
"Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man."
More Deaf Quotes
- Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the… — Albert Bandura
- Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of… — Roseanne Barr
- All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds. — Marc Bolan
- How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not… — Hsu Yun
- As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace… — Chinua Achebe
- Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. — Roger L'Estrange
- Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly… — Oscar Wilde
- He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives… — Orison Swett Marden
- Listening is totally different from hearing. Hearing, anybody who is not deaf can do. Listening is a rare art, one… — Rajneesh
- Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf. — William Osler
- Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. — Francis Quarles
- The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends. — William Shakespeare