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"To play without passion is inexcusable." -Beethoven
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer. - John Ruskin
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
- Ringo Starr
I like your opera. I think I will set it to music.
- Ludwig van Beethoven
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 (British dramatist & screenwriter)
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
- Simon Rattle
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.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man,
and bring tears from the eyes of woman
- Ludwig van Beethoven
People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.
- Witold Lutoslawski
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