Music Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

What a Beethoven, Shakespeare or Picasso has done is not create something, so much as they have accessed that place within themselves from which…

— Marianne Williamson

“It was Haydn and Mozart who really cracked the sonata, but it was Beethoven who reinvented it, just as he reinvented the symphony. Bach…

— Rachel Joyce

“Beethoven, he learned, was a proud man who believed absolutely in his own abilities and never bothered to flatter the nobility. Believing that art…

— Haruki Murakami

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.

— George Carlin

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

All composers who came after were influenced by Beethoven, even during his lifetime, both by his personality and by his music. He was a…

— Andris Nelsons

There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.

— Wynton Marsalis

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

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— Sheila Hancock