Beethoven Quotes
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Bill Lovejoy
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Just the thought of a rap version of Beethoven`s Fifth Symphony or `Achy, Breaky Heart` is bound to make people smile.
Anthony Kennedy
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It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.
Albert Einstein
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they COULD be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black
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The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that [Adolf Hitler] was a German and [Ludwig van Beethoven] an Austrian.
Billy Wilder
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With Beethoven (Immortal Beloved (1994)) I said I wanted a role where I didn`t have to do anything stupid with my hair. My agent said "Read it again!".
Gary Oldman
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[on portraying famous people]: It`s a double-edged sword because, in one sense, you have a lot of material to work with, but in a strange kind of way, that puts up a framework that you have to keep within. You can`t play Beethoven with pink hair but, to a...
Gary Oldman
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Yesterday I was playing Beethoven`s fifth, because I love that.
Joan Armatrading
Source: brainyquote.com
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This is the Beethoven of that time.
Billy Cox
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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
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the honest answer has to be that it`s great music, but also the fact that it spans the whole range of Beethoven`s language. It`s the ultimate challenge, one of the ultimate rewards in music, as much for the listener as for the performer.
Paul Lewis
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Life can`t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
Andrew Mwenda
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If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Jack Black
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I remember when we did a concert after the 9/11 tragedy ? a performance of Beethoven`s Ninth Symphony ? everybody just rose up 10 notches above what they normally could do ? and it was a great performance.
Robert Hanson
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Al Ansley
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I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
Kiana Tom
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Ringo Starr
Source: brainyquote.com
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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
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Even Beethoven didn`t get that.
Anne Beardsley
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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.
Johannes Brahms
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Bringing the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, fabulous guest vocalists and this super-sized chorus together to perform Beethoven`s Ninth reflects the nature of this revolutionary piece -- it requires all 240 people on stage to do justice to the power and magnifi...
Robert Hanson
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
Boy George
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As a small boy I had read about Beethoven in the Book of Knowledge, now I was listening enraptured to his sonatas and symphonies.
Satyajit Ray
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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
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[Indeed, despite a Teutonic accent, Zawinul contradicts stereotypes about his Austrian heritage that he should be playing Mozart and Beethoven.] There is another Austria, ... much less known, and that is the folk music of Austria. Even the way we speak is...
Joe Zawinul
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is s...
David Cronenberg
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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
