Information Quote by William Badke

“I'd like to hear your opinion on this piece of Beethoven. And remember, it is not Beethoven who is being examined here.”

— Paul Strathern

“In these few minutes, I was Beethoven's captive and I couldn't have been a more willing participant.”

— Stormy Smith

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

— E.M. Forster

“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

“Beethoven... he is a miracle!”

— Alice Herz Sommer

“I'm not Beethoven!”

— Jerry Garcia

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

— Ian Simpson

“He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.”

— Henry Adams

“And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Charlotte Yates didn’t especially care for music. All that abstract mooning about. Words, that was what moved people. A good play was worth a…

— Magnus Flyte

“A brick could be used as a musical instrument. But it would take someone as deaf as Beethoven to enjoy it.
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— Jarod Kintz

“Oh, well - he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.”

— Kurt Vonnegut