Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Beethoven's symphonies are not 'relaxing.' They are the most exciting things that have ever been created by a human being.
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.
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
The sound of the orchestra is one of the most magnificent musical sounds that has ever existed.
Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
A Beethoven symphony should be rehearsed like chamber music, only for a lot more people.
Yesterday I was playing Beethoven's fifth, because I love that.
I think a great piece, whenever it was written, gets under our skin, makes us feel something. That's what Beethoven was trying to do.
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man.
Anyone who knows classical music and loves classical music has heard the Beethoven Seventh hundreds of times probably in their life.