Beethoven Quotes

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

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.

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

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

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

If you go to Japan for instance, you should know that they have a different way of playing Beethoven or Brahms. But if you play with them Mozart, Debussy, Mendelssohn, they have a wonderful light feeling for that.

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

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

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

I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.

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

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?

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.

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.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

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

I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!

I like Beethoven, especially the poems.

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.