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So the idea was to somehow lure those who are the most capable of sympathising with Beethoven and his own suffering into the world of music. – Mate Hamori	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.” – Ludwig van Beethoven	added by anonymous 4 years ago
I thought, that's it for me, I'm going to be like this for the rest of my life, but I could play, not fantastically. And two weeks later I played (Beethoven's) Emperor Concerto, not fantastically, but it was good. – Stephen Kovacevich	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both. – Henri-Frédéric Amiel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium. – Milan Kundera	added by anonymous 10 years ago
I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven. – Richard Wagner	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well." – Martin Luther King Jr.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division. – Jan Ehrenwald.	added by anonymous 13 years ago
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. – Martin Luther King, Jr.	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond. – Andrew Schneider	added by anonymous 14 years ago

So the idea was to somehow lure those who are the most capable of sympathising with Beethoven and his own suffering into the world of music.

– Mate Hamori

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.”

– Ludwig van Beethoven

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I thought, that's it for me, I'm going to be like this for the rest of my life, but I could play, not fantastically. And two weeks later I played (Beethoven's) Emperor Concerto, not fantastically, but it was good.

– Stephen Kovacevich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

– Henri-Frédéric Amiel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

– Milan Kundera

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I believe in God, Mozart, and Beethoven.

– Richard Wagner

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."

– Martin Luther King Jr.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Ludwig von Beethoven had never mastered the elements of arithmetic beyond addition and subtraction. A thirteen-year-old boy whom he had befriended tried unsuccessfully to teach him simple multiplication and division.

– Jan Ehrenwald.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

– H.L. Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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

added by anonymous
14 years ago

You've been listening to the adagio from Beethoven's 7th Symphony. I think Ludwig pretty much summed up death in this one. You know, he had lost just about all his hearing when he wrote it, and I've often wondered if that didn't help him tune into the final silence of the great beyond.

– Andrew Schneider

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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