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I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.
One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.
Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.
I grew up loving symphonies. Beethoven is beautiful.
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
My parents once caught me conducting Beethoven's 'Fifth Symphony.'
The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.
I think that, as a person, Beethoven talks to everyone in different ways.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.
I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Beethoven was always too much. He's not slightly anything - he's very everything.
After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
If you look back, Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven were mixing music and humor all the time.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.
Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.
I'm a big Beethoven fan, and you'll struggle to find a three-minute song on any of his stuff.
Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.
I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
I'm very eclectic in my music tastes - anything from Nina Simone to Beethoven to Talvin Singh.
If Beethoven could write his 'Eroica Symphony' stone deaf, then William Wyler can do a musical.
In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.
We soaked up everything from Beethoven to Chopin to Jimi Hendrix to Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan.
I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
We built a bit of an audience at our university in Cambridge, playing Beethoven and Mozart quartets.
Guided By Voices was huge when I was 16. Then I got into the Beatles, then classical music, Beethoven.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
I hate playing the piano! And it's so hard to fight for Beethoven's soul! But that's what I have to do!
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
I much rather coach a string quartet in an interpretation of Haydn or Beethoven than to teach the guitar.
I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
I think Beethoven means dissonances to be more stressed than consonances - it's the shock tactician in him.
We are a global society, and one does not have to be from Germany to give a great performance of Beethoven.
I find myself more genuinely drawn to the essence of Beethoven in Schnabel than I ever have been by anybody.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.
When I was five, I heard the end of Beethoven's 'Ninth Symphony' with my mother, and I got goosebumps all over my body.
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.