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If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God ... — H.L. Mencken

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

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.

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

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

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. — E. M. Forster

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

Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance. — Boy George

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. — H.L. Mencken

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

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that. — Joan Armatrading

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

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. Oh, well
he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway. — Kurt Vonnegut

Oh continue to love me -
never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do! — Charles Hazlewood

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 have owned and played a Steinway all my life. It's the best Beethoven piano. The best Chopin piano. And the best Ray Charles piano. I like it, too. — Randy Newman

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

Wherever you are, I am there also. — 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

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. — Simon Rattle

I know of only one composer who measures up to Beethoven, and that is Bruckner. — Richard Wagner

Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. — Karen Armstrong

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

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being. — Joshua Bell

The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. — Thomas Beecham

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in. — Daniel Barenboim

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

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

And this famine was as purely a product of oversize brains as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. — Kurt Vonnegut

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, too, isn't it? — Isaac Asimov

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I love a tree more than a man. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. — Daniel Barenboim

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe. — Douglas Adams

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! — Michael Tilson Thomas

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

After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. — Zubin Mehta

all this Beethoven and rain — Michael Ondaatje

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists. — Jeffrey Tate

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Without suffering there is no struggle, without struggle no victory, without victory no crown." Maria van Beethoven (Beethoven's mom) — Jan Swafford

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

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

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. — Walt Disney Company

Beethoven's music is music about music. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. — Leonard Slatkin

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket) — Oscar Levant

Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, — Charlie Chaplin

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven. — Randy Newman

If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man? — Smokey Robinson

Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice. — Victor Borge

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work. — I.M. Pei

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd. — Greg Louganis

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

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? — Eva Marie Saint

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! — Candy Crowley

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets. — Adam Mansbach

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. — 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

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time. — David Canary

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. — Graham Chapman

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people. — Joshua Bell

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. — Michael Tippett

Music can change the world. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize. — Sarah Strohmeyer

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven — Gary Oldman

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. — Billy Wilder

Love demands all, and has a right to all. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch — Slavoj Zizek

I shall seize fate by the throat. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

To play without passion is inexcusable! — 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

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others. — Ludwig Van Beethoven