“Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.”
John Ruskin
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Roll over, Beethoven, and tell Tchaikovsky the news.”
Chuck Berry
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
Albert Einstein
“Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.”
Vanessa Mae
“I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.”
James Brown
“You played very well but I would like you to take the Fourth Sonata of Beethoven and figure it out for yourself.”
Leonard Rose
