Beethoven Quotes

Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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

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

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.

My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.

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

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.

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.

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.

Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

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

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.