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all this Beethoven and rain -- Michael Ondaatje
I like Beethoven, especially the poems. -- Ringo Starr
Who can do anything after Beethoven? -- Franz Schubert
Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives. -- Bruno Walter
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky the news. -- Chuck Berry
Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives. -- Bruno Walter
Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch -- Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. -- Richard Wagner
I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion. -- Alice Herz-Sommer
To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength. -- Johannes Brahms
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys. -- Scott Ian
Beethoven was ahead of the times, Bach behind them. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven. -- Randy Newman
I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven. -- Joan Rivers
a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep. -- Alice Foote MacDougall
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd. -- Greg Louganis
Moving pictures need sound as much as Beethoven symphonies need lyrics, -- Charlie Chaplin
Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair. -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
When Beethoven went deaf, the mynah bird just used to mime. -- Graham Chapman
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time. -- David Canary
Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain. -- Karen Armstrong
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer. -- Zubin Mehta
Either people walk round dressed as chickens or they listen to Beethoven. -- John Cleese
Beethoven wrote in three flats a lot. That's because he moved twice. -- Victor Borge
Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter. -- George Carlin
You can chase a Beethoven symphony all your life and never catch up. -- Andre Previn
The fall of man stands a lie before Beethoven, a truth before Hitler. -- Gregory Corso
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. -- Gioachino Rossini
You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio. -- Deepak Chopra
I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog. -- Alicia Keys
Beethoven and Michelangelo, who sold their artworks for profit, were entrepreneurs and capitalists. -- Tyler Cowen
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more. -- Neville Marriner
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God. -- Gioachino Rossini
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. -- H. L. Mencken
The three greatest composers are Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. All the others are cretins. -- Hans von Bulow
Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles. -- Richard Dawkins
Beethoven can't really be great because his picture isn't on a bubble gum card. -- Charles M. Schulz
On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize. -- Sarah Strohmeyer
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance. -- Boy George
I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven -- Gary Oldman
Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do? -- Eva Marie Saint
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is." -- Joshua Bell
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all." -- Vanessa Mae
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all. -- Vanessa Mae
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. -- Andre Previn
When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics -- Bill Walton
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time. -- Richard Hyung-ki Joo
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that. -- Esa-Pekka Salonen
Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ? -- Tex Sample
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart." -- Kiana Tom
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. -- Kiana Tom
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. -- Witold Lutos?awski
You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is! -- Michael Tilson Thomas
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. -- E. M. Forster
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. -- Witold Lutos?awski
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh. -- Monica Ali
I listen only to Bach, Beethoven or Mozart. Life is too short to waste on other composers. -- John Edensor Littlewood
Mozart is a garden, Schubert is a forest in light and shade, but Beethoven is a mountain range, -- Artur Schnabel
Perhaps Bach and Beethoven are strange bedfellows for Mickey Mouse, but it's all been a lot of fun. -- Walt Disney
I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world... -- Frederic Chopin
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece. -- Lady Gaga
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. -- Daniel Barenboim
Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you. -- Max Lucado
I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500. -- James Brown
Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. -- Michael Tippett
John Lennon was brilliant, so gifted, so giving. He was the Bach, Beethoven, the Rachmaninoff of our time. -- Sid Bernstein
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. -- Billy Wilder
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature." -- Anne Stevenson
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. -- Anne Stevenson
When I was a kid I used to want to be a Beethoven or something. That was my dream. -- Vince Staples
Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists. -- Jeffrey Tate
[Adams] supposed that, except musicians, everyone thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. -- Henry Adams
If Beethoven were sent to nursery school today, they would medicate him, and he would be a postal clerk. -- Leon Botstein
Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man. -- Thomas Beecham
Milton saw not, and Beethoven heard not, but the sense of beauty was upon them, and they fain must speak. -- John Ruskin
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! -- Candy Crowley
Id love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick! -- Candy Crowley
I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. -- Pele
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong. -- Simon Rattle
Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time. -- Nigel Kennedy
My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven. -- Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. -- Cornel West
Some people think a song without words isn't a real song. Tell that to Beethoven and he'll kick your ass! -- Eddie Van Halen
In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct. -- Edvard Grieg
Beethoven in c minor has come to symbolize his artistic character...where he seems to be most impatient of any compromise. -- Charles Rosen
If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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 and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. -- Sun Ra
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. -- John Ruskin
Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war. -- Fannie Hurst
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven. -- Leonard Slatkin
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. -- Jack Black
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration." -- Ernest Newman
Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. -- Ernest Newman
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
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D." -- Jack Black
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising. -- Wynton Marsalis
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.
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
... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find ... -- Itzhak Perlman
It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man. -- E. M. Forster
Women play cellos and violins in symphony orchestras. They're playing Beethoven and Bach. What do you mean they can't play rock and roll? -- Joan Jett
Mathematics is an activity governed by the same rules imposed upon the symphonies of Beethoven, the paintings of DaVinci, and the poetry of Homer. -- Edward Kasner
Soccer and sports are entertainment ... You can't call Beethoven's 9th Symphony or a work of Shakespeare `entertainment.' It's not `entertainment.' It's culture. -- Riccardo Muti
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
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
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill. -- Franz Liszt
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In poetry there are two giants, rough Homer and fine Shakespere. In music likewise we have two giants, Beethoven, the thinker, and the superthinker Berlioz. -- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
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 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
I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven. -- Flula Borg
Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry. -- Ennio Morricone

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