Beethoven Quote by Wadada Leo Smith

I really don't think I have that much of the gift; I have a little bit, but I wish I were Schubert or Chopin…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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

Stravinskys music, hard, cold, unsentimental, enormously brilliant and virtuous, was now the favorite of my postadolescence. In a different way it achieved the hard,…

— George Antheil

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the…

— Charles Hazlewood

There is just something about a symphony that moves my soul.

— Lorrie Morgan

The loving energy that I radiate into this world is a gift beyond my own understanding.

— Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.

— Lil Xan

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

— Oscar Hijuelos

Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

— George Bernard Shaw

Melodic invention is one of the surest signs of a divine gift.

— Gustav Mahler

My energy is undoubtedly my two sons Yatra and Linga, and they are my all-time inspirations.

— Dhanush