Happiness Quote by Tomoko Ninomiya

“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible…

— Shane Koyczan

“Two decades later, Ferdinand Hiller had proposed in a long essay—published in a special issue of the magazine Salon that celebrated Beethoven’s centenary—precisely where…

— Russell Martin

“This was Beethoven’s great significance, not through form or musical language, but in recalibrating what music was for. Single-handedly he turned it from genteel,…

— Howard Goodall

“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

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and…

— H. L. Mencken

“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

“Nowadays, people no longer know Beethoven's Ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the 'Ode to Joy' that they hear every day…

— Milan Kundera

Beethoven’s music always struck me. Always. He had this fire you know. I remember reading this story of him going deaf and pushing himself…

— Rodney Mullen

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

— Ian Simpson

“It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.”

— E.M. Forster

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

“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