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A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. — Andre Previn

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. — John Ruskin

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

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy — Ludwig Van Beethoven

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music comes to me more readily than words. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time. — Richard Hyung-ki Joo

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. — James Brown

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

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. — Anne Stevenson

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

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life. — Joshua Bell

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them . — Ludwig Van Beethoven

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music ... and of aviation. — Tom Stoppard

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. — Witold Lutoslawski

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music. — Dave Brubeck

Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven. — Albert Hammond Jr.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. — 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

I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh. — Monica Ali

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

Music is the mediator between
the spiritual and the sensual life. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Music can change the world. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ? — Tex Sample

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

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

A few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep. — Alice Foote MacDougall

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

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — 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

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. — Pele