Beethoven Quotes

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

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.

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

I believe so, but at first he must know. He must know in which spirit Beethoven has composed this piece. He must try to study that. And he must find out in which station of life of Beethoven he did.

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

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.

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.

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

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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

Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

Even if you're playing Brahms or a Beethoven concerto, you've got to have a different vantage point, slightly, each time.

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

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

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.