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There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.

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

I'm a Beethoven freak. I listen to him all the time.

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

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.

You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

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

Playing the Beethoven symphonies, for example, is a consummate experience for a musician because Beethoven speaks so directly to who we are as people.

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