Beethoven Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

One of Beethoven's favorite dishes was macaroni and cheese. The girl I marry must be able to make good macaroni and cheese..." "How did…

— Charles M. Schulz

By the combination of lines and colors, under the pretext of some motif taken from nature, I create symphonies and harmonies that represent nothing…

— Paul Gauguin

“I don't know. How did Beethoven hear the Ninth Symphony in his head before he wrote it down? The brain's a pretty good computer,…

— Isaac Asimov

“ Jeremy Bentham startled the world many years ago by stating in effect that if the amount of pleasure obtained from each be equal…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“I hope Ludwig van Beethoven gets his cut, Langdon thought, fairly certain that the original inventor of bone conduction technology was the eighteenth-century composer…

— Dan Brown

Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card.

— Charles M. Schulz

“On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize.”

— Sarah Strohmeyer

I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I…

— Elie Wiesel

“You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom more than public…

— Wilhelm Reich

The point of recapitulation in the first movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony unleashes one of the most horrifyingly violent episodes in the history of…

— Susan McClary

“He had said it bravely, and that is why one can trust Beethoven when he says other things.”

— E.M. Forster

“That Beethoven was capable of producing the ultimate musical definition of heroism in this context is itself extraordinary, for he was able to evoke…

— Maynard Solomon