Beethoven Quotes
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
— Antonio Damasio
the mighty harmonies of Beethoven
— Oscar Wilde
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
— Neville Marriner
After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.
— Johannes Brahms
Artists are fiery, they do not weep!
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk.
— Leon Botstein
The day-to-day exhausted me!
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.
— Max Lucado
The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.
— Daniel Silva
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news.
— Chuck Berry
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours — Ludwig Van Beethoven
We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.
— Frederic Chopin
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world ...
— Frederic Chopin
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.
— Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
— Kiana Tom
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Wherever you are, I am there also.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
The guitar is an orchestra in itself.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
— Robertson Davies
What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins.
— Hans Von Bulow
All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.
— Jeffrey Tate
People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.
— Randy Newman
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
— Leonard Slatkin
Art always demands of us something new.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music should be an elective experience. You should go, "I'm going to sit down and listen to some Beethoven, by God," and then you get to hear it.
— Linda Ronstadt
No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics,
— Charlie Chaplin
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Our students should be playing Beethoven with research processes, but instead we are hearing Mary Had a Little Lamb.
— William Badke
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
— Daniel Barenboim
I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life.
— Alexandra Stoddard
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct.
— Edvard Grieg
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
When Chaplin found a voice to say what was on his mind, he was like a child of eight writing lyrics for Beethoven's Ninth.
— Billy Wilder
Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
A burst of Beethoven that would have made the composer glad he was deaf erupted from her i-Phone.
— Ian Simpson
Listening to Beethoven also is sensuality, but when you have said 'sex' you have said all. A man who can give up sex can give up Beethoven.
— Nanavira Thera
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ?
— Tex Sample
I can do nothing but think of you ... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over ... [on his death bed] — Ludwig Van Beethoven
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
— Jack Black
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
— Candy Crowley
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?
— Eva Marie Saint
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
— Esa-Pekka Salonen
Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
To play without passion is inexcusable!
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime.
— Graham Chapman
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Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch
— Slavoj Zizek
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
— Billy Wilder
Music can change the world.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter.
— George Carlin
Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.
— Seymour Stein
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I love a tree more than a man.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
I shall seize fate by the throat.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.
— Michael Tippett
I free-form it, rock n' roll it. I'm a creature of risk, so I don't know how I'm going to explore a Beethoven symphony until I'm doing it.
— Charles Hazlewood
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!
— Michael Tilson Thomas
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
— David Canary
all this Beethoven and rain
— Michael Ondaatje