Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.

- Joshua Bell

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

- Kiana Tom

Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

- Jeffrey Tate

Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.

- Joan Armatrading

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and so on - I always feel, quite misguidedly, that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

- Jane Asher

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

- John Tavener

Beethoven's fourth and seventh symphonies have a certain amount in common. Well, of course they're both written by Beethoven, but besides that, I would say their overall effect and idea is to provide the listener with an incredible sense of joy.

- Joshua Bell

Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.

- Joshua Bell

The man on the street, he knows who Beethoven is, he knows who Mozart is.

- Joshua Bell

A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.

- Andre Previn

If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.

- Jack Black

One of my dogs is in the movie Beethoven's 2nd.

- Greg Louganis

I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

- Flula Borg

I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.

- Franz Liszt

Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

- Ennio Morricone

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

- Esa-Pekka Salonen

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

- E. M. Forster

Napolean is dead - but Beethoven lives.

- Bruno Walter

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.

- Billy Wilder