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beethoven Quotes and Quotations
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Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that. Joan Armatrading | top
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven. Ludwig van Beethoven | top
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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 | top
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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. William F. Buckley, Jr. | top
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I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time. David Canary | top
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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? Robert Fripp | top
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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance. Boy George | top
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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. Edvard Grieg | top
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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. Jascha Heifetz | top
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One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd. Greg Louganis | top
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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. Witold Lutoslawski | top
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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 | top
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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. Kurt Masur | top
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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. Kurt Masur | top
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. H. L. Mencken | top
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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. Ennio Morricone | top
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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. Sun Ra | top
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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 | top
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After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently. Esa-Pekka Salonen | top
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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. Maximilian Schell | top
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I like Beethoven, especially the poems. Ringo Starr | top
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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme. Michael Tippett | top
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I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart. Kiana Tom | top
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The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth. Kurt Vonnegut | top
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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. John Zorn | top