Composer Quote by Virginia Graham

I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing…

— Antonio Damasio

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind…

— Jascha Heifetz

A lot of people don't know that Beethoven, when he wrote the Fifth Symphony, that second movement, he took eight years to figure that…

— Wayne Shorter

You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up.

— Andre Previn

A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does…

— Joyce Cary

“The Buddha may have been the Beethoven of his psychological state, but Beethoven got to where he was gradually, and still fell somewhere on…

— Designing the Mind

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

— Anonymous

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

— Ernest Newman

The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later…

— Igor Stravinsky

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

The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart…

— Ernest Newman

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

— David Canary