Quotes about Beethoven

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You'll have a good, secure life when being alive means more to you than security, love more than money, your freedom mor — Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!
The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are a — Stephen J. Rivele
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make — John Berryman
Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethov — Daniel Bor, The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning
Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afrai — Mike Norton
I did put on the record player, the love symphony of Beethoven wafted in the air. You and I made love,last February on t — Avijeet Das
I remembered that Beethoven's symphonies had sometimes been given names... they should have call [the Fifth] the Vampire — Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag
A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his — Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind can — Ludwig van Beethoven
At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a st — Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
Modern man is full of platitudes about living life to its fullest, with catchy keychain phrases and little plaques for k — Tiffany Madison
To play a wrong note is insignificant — to play without passion is inexcusable!
Well, what do you think? Avanti?""Avanti," cries everyone, and, after a few quick re-tunings of our instruments, and re- — Vikram Seth, An Equal Music
He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathe — Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
No; look out for the part where you think you have done with the goblins and they come back,' breathed Helen, as the mus — E.M. Forster
Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was — Doris Mortman, The Wild Rose
I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better."The lady gave a discriminating — Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
Three miles from my adopted city lies a village where I came to peace.The world there was a calm place, even the great D — Rita Dove
Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved — Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier
Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per — Shannon L. Alder