68 Beethoven Quotes for You to Enjoy

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven

Myself You Will Accident Birth Thousand Only Princes Am Beethoven

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

Good Impossible Beethoven Goethe Being Golf Billiards Imagine

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz

I like Beethoven, especially the poems. Ringo Starr

Poems Like Beethoven

I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I'm listening to more modern composers who I can't even name. But since I'm constantly doing music, it's difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff. A. R. Rahman

Music Time Quality Listening Difficult Bach Constantly Composers Classical More Stuff Since Name Quality Time Doing Beethoven Up Modern Listen Grew Who Even Now

As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan. Alan Menken

As for my relationship to Beethoven, I admire people who can say what they really think. It's as though he's saying, 'That's how I feel about the world, and I don't care what people may say.' His music is pure and honest. Beethoven never pretends to be anybody else. Andris Nelsons

Music Saying Relationship People World Care Pure Think Else Say Though Pretends Admire About Never He Feel How His Beethoven May Anybody Anybody Else Really Who Honest

I suppose I have become a sort of living monument in Portugal. But I come from a family with roots all over the world, so the idea of patriotism is not very strong in me. My country is the country of Chekhov, Beethoven, Velasquez - writers I like, painters and artists I admire. Antonio Lobo Antunes

Family Me Patriotism World Strong Country Become Living Monument Admire Writers Idea Over Suppose Come Like Sort Chekhov Beethoven Very Artists Roots Painters Portugal

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

People World Brilliant Made Believe Beethoven German

I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It's like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, 'I think you try too hard in your comedy.' And that's what I worry about. Bo Burnham

You Beatles People Sometimes Comedy Try Think Too Worry Range About Area Like Hear Beethoven Trying Different Different Areas Your Hard Multiple Compare Peaks

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

Great Drama About Had Look Beethoven Very Much Appearance

Mozart, Beethoven - how can you not want to share them with everyone and anyone? This stuff is of as great importance as the food we eat and the air we breathe. Charles Hazlewood

Food Great You Everyone Air Eat Share Stuff Importance How Beethoven Want Anyone Them Breathe Mozart

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven. Daniel Barenboim

Funny Beatles Party Met About Talk Also Because Hear Beethoven Quite Wanted Them Then Playing Chance

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society. Daniel Barenboim

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

Music Great You Remember Bach Perfection Were Hear Beethoven Mozart

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything. David Bryan

It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'. Denis Dutton

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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows? Eddie Van Halen

You Boom Exactly Exactly What Recorder Had He Instead Know Knows Tape Beethoven Tape Recorder Maybe Then Meant Who Imagine

Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home. Edvard Grieg

Home Happy Men Build Heights Bach Churches Temples Only Feel Like Beethoven Artists Wanted Which Might

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

Active Pulse Masters Beethoven Means Stravinsky Expression Two

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