Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. ~ Ludwig van Beethoven
If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong. ~Simon Rattle
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ~Ludwig van Beethoven
“You can’t possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven’s Seventh and go slow.”
– Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.
“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.
“The amount of money one needs is terrifying…”
– Ludwig van Beethoven
“He has an enormously wide repertory. He can conduct anything, provided it’s by Beethoven, Brahms or Wagner. He tried Debussy’s La Mer once. It came out as Das Merde.”
–Anonymous Orchestra Member on George Szell
“Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.”
–Ludwig van Beethoven
“What can you do with it? It’s like a lot of yaks jumping about.”
–Sir Thomas Beecham on Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
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