Age Quote by Tom Stoppard

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would…

— Tom Stoppard

When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and…

— Stephen Hough

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

— Sheila Hancock

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

— Joan Rivers

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

— Michael Tippett

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

— Randy Newman

It is sobering to consider that when Mozart was my age he had already been dead for a year.

— Tom Lehrer

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

— Simon Rattle

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do,…

— Smokey Robinson

And now, in honour of the 150th anniversary of Beethoven's death, I would like to play 'Clear the Saloon', er, 'Clair de Lune', by…

— Victor Borge

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