Believe Quote by Wynton Marsalis

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

If you mess up the tiniest little thing in the Beethoven concerto, or the phrasing isn't just exactly perfectly executed, Beethoven brings out the…

— Joshua Bell

“Did Beethoven create his symphonies for his glorification? I don't believe it. I believe he created them because the music in his soul demanded…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was the quartets of Beethoven (numbers 12,13,14, and 15) which over fifty years, created and expanded the the audience of listeners to the…

— Marcel Proust

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

— Neville Marriner

It was really amazing. I mean, he'd never mentioned that he played in the symphony, like serious violin playing, not fiddle playing. And he…

— Guy Clark

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

— Joan Rivers

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

— George Carlin

“When Tchaikovsky finished writing his Violin Concerto in 1878, he asked the famous violinist Leopold Auer to give the premier performance. Auer studied the…

— Geoff Colvin

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

— Sheila Hancock

“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