Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
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.
There was one thing Beethoven didn't do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn't improvising.
I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.
It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'll tape a bunch of cats together to make a cow', and it's like, 'Why don't you just use a cow?'. For some reason that is novel - like, 'Oh, my guitar sounds like a piano and now if I can just get my piano to sound like my guitar'.
You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by frequencies that you hit, digital was a process where musical sounds are transferred to numbers and stored as numbers.
Every new revelation about the Obama Administration comes with the familiar musical notes of the Rod Serling TV classic ringing in my head: 'Do-dee-do-do, do-dee-do-do.'
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