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If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.
Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Music
Time
You
Humor
Back
Look
Were
Mixing
Beethoven
Mozart
I don't get so much inspiration from other musicians. Especially alive musicians. Late musicians are good - Bach, Beethoven - yes, good.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Good
Musicians
Other
Late
Bach
Alive
Inspiration
Beethoven
Yes
Get
Much
When I think of Chinese parents, I think of people who weep upon hearing Beethoven, but who can't necessarily bring that joy to others.
Sandra Tsing Loh
People
Joy
Parents
Think
Others
Weep
Beethoven
Hearing
Chinese
Who
Necessarily
Bring
I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.
Simon Rattle
Think
More
Him
Beethoven
Shock
Than
Means
Stressed
If they say they don't like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they're right. But if they don't like what I've written, then it's about me.
Stephen Hough
Me
Way
Say
About
Written
Like
Beethoven
Maybe
Swallow
Then
They Say
Play
Right
When you're a kid, Beethoven is Beethoven, but as I've grown older, my astonishment at the sheer inventiveness of the man has increased, and I have an appreciation that I didn't have when I was in my 20s.
Stephen Hough
You
Man
Appreciation
Older
Increased
Astonishment
Kid
Sheer
Beethoven
Grown
With copious evidence ranging from Plato's haughtiness to Beethoven's tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
Stephen Jay Gould
History
People
Brilliant
Evidence
Tend
Most
Conclude
Beethoven
Lot
May
Plato
And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage.
Tony Randall
Music
Great
History
Crime
Heritage
Everybody
Back
Way
Part
Like
Because
Beethoven
Greeks
Going
Just
Mozart
Plays
My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'
Walker Hayes
Me
Parents
Symphony
Once
Caught
Beethoven
Conducting
Fifth
To me, a song is not finished. To me, there's no such thing as a finished anything. All of Beethoven's nine symphonies, to me, are one. I think of it as having no beginning and no end.
Wayne Shorter
Me
Song
Finished
Beginning
Think
Symphonies
Nine
Having
Beethoven
End
Anything
Thing
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 out!
Wayne Shorter
People
Symphony
Took
Out
He
Know
Wrote
Years
Beethoven
Lot
Movement
Eight
Fifth
Figure
Second
I use a lot of piano riffs in my production, and someone who I was working with said that I played so good that it sound like Beethoven.
Zaytoven
Good
Someone
Piano
Like
Said
Sound
Beethoven
Lot
Working
Production
Use
Who
Riffs
Played
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
Music
History
Age
Changed
Would
Had
Been
Beethoven
The History Of
Crash
Plane
Plane Crash
Aviation
Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Music
Beatles
Guided
Classical
Classical Music
Voices
Got
Beethoven
Huge
Then
When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That's not the only image that a composer should bring up, you know. But that's kind of what we've said it is.
Rhiannon Giddens
You
Think
Wig
Paper
Kind
Composer
Guy
Only
Piano
Like
Know
Said
Hear
Beethoven
Up
Scribbling
Should
Manuscript
Image
Bring
There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
Albert Hammond, Jr.
Music
Me
Learning
People
Long
Too
About
Something
Excited
Drove
Like
Liked
Understand
Got
Still
Beethoven
Different
Then
Different People
Theory
Who
Even
Actually
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