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

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Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.

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Giving Up Smoking

There's not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That's easier to like than you
Or harder to forget.

You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven't finished yet —
I like you more than I would like
To have a cigarette.

poem by Wendy Cope
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

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Beethoven and Beatles, Mozart and Michael Jackson, Paganini and Prince - I like them all.

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Most Beethoven symphonies require 80 or more instruments, and the late romantics even more.

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Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

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Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark
that he barks every time they leave the house.
They must switch him on on their way out.

The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
I close all the windows in the house
and put on a Beethoven symphony full blast
but I can still hear him muffled under the music,
barking, barking, barking,

and now I can see him sitting in the orchestra,
his head raised confidently as if Beethoven
had included a part for barking dog.

When the record finally ends he is still barking,
sitting there in the oboe section barking,
his eyes fixed on the conductor who is
entreating him with his baton

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poem by Billy Collins
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Rocknroll Juvenile

Im a rockn roll juvenile,
Watch me run a mile,
When they play beethoven,
Im a rockn roll groovy mover,
I only dig beethoven,
When hes been rolled over.
(roll over beethoven).
Im a rockn roll holy roller,
I love to sing bout jesus,
Cos he saved my soul-a,
Im a rockn rolling believer,
Roll a rock at the devil,
Hes just a deceiver,
(roll the rock).
Look at me, Im your rockn roll man,
Been a rockn roll fan since it began,
Look at me, follow me if you care,
Ive found a rockn roll heaven,
Ill take you there.
Look at me here I am,

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song performed by Cliff Richard
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I play the piano and have been playing since I was 7, mainly classical Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart.

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

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

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

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Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

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People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet.

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Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

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Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

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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.

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Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration.

quote by Ernest Newman
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