(20 quotes found)
“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
“I chose Beethoven because it is very recognizable. Most people know those famous first four notes of this symphony.”
Yoichi Udagawa
“In Vienna every place Beethoven looked at, it's marked by something.”
Wynton Marsalis
“With the Beethoven sonata project, the emphasis was principally on the music, although Schnabel was considered its greatest exponent.”
Charles Rosen
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
Ludwig van Beethoven
“[In another spot, Beethoven puts in numbers to signify the fingering.] It's so touching, ... It means he played it.”
Stephen Roe
“If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.”
Jack Black
