Beethoven Quotes

Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men. - Ludwig Van Beethoven

You played very well but I would like you to take the Fourth Sonata of Beethoven and figure it out for yourself. - Leonard Rose

You look at Beethoven's sketch book and he's working things out, trying this, trying that. Mozart didn't do that. He simply wrote it out. Beethoven did not have the same abilities that Mozart had. And you know how much Beethoven means to us. When you listen to the Ninth Symphony, it's one of the greatest accomplishments of all mankind, artistically certainly. But he shuddered when he thought of the shadow Mozart cast over music and he felt pressure, just like Brahms felt the pressure Beethoven's Ninth put on symphonic writing. - George Hanson

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. [explaining his way out of a speeding ticket] - Oscar Levant

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

Why does Beethoven appeal and continue to appeal? Other than the obvious (his having written great music), Beethoven communicates a credo so effectively that the listener finds the courage he needs to reaffirm his own belief in the purpose of life. Beethoven stiffens the fiber of our commitment in a language that is beauty itself, in a statement as open as a Greek temple. Friend Beethoven is the one friend we shall always have. - Lorin Maazel

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. - Madeleine L'Engle

When I was really little, I wanted to be like Schroeder from the Peanuts comics. There was something about that Beethoven he'd play that made the hair on the back of my neck stand up. - Christine Anderson

When I think of Boris Diaw, I think of Beethoven in the age of the romantics. - Bill Walton