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  • A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people. -- Andre Previn
  • If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time. -- Richard Hyung-ki Joo
  • I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh. -- Monica Ali
  • Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence. -- Daniel Barenboim
  • I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature. -- Anne Stevenson
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure. -- Daniel Barenboim
  • 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
  • Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along. -- Nigel Kennedy
  • Composers most identified with the chamber music form are Corelli, Vivaldi, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and, of course, Bach. Of course, Bach. If there is any one composer who gives us reason and emotion, it is Bach. -- Karen DeCrow
  • If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven. But this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not? -- Robert Fripp
  • Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
  • Undoubtedly [Beethoven's] music often verges on kitsch -- Slavoj Žižek
  • Jesus never heard of Beethoven and Bach. Why aren't we playing more country music in church ? -- Tex Sample
  • People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. -- Witold Lutos?awski
  • 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
  • I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature." -- Anne Stevenson
  • I was born to play football, just like Beethoven was born to write music and Michelangelo was born to paint. -- Pele
  • 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
  • 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
  • How did Haydn and Mozart produce such vast quantities of formally perfect art? They worked from a perfect formula. In music, Beethoven was the Great Emancipator. -- Edward Abbey
  • 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 am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • 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 call the notion that we are nothing but killer apes the Beethoven fallacy. Beethoven was disorganized and messy, and yet his music is the epitome of order. -- Frans de Waal
  • As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano. -- Michael Hersch
  • Classical music fulfills for me the function of narrative. I spend 90 minutes a day listening to symphonic music - Beethoven to Bartók - some chamber pieces, and that's my enrichment. -- James Ellroy
  • 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
  • Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
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