You know my temperature's risin', The juke box's blowin'a fuse, My heart's beatin'rhythm, My soul keeps a singin'the bluesö Roll over Beethoven, Tell Tchaikovsky the news.

-Berry, Chuck (Charles Edward Anderson)
  'Roll over Beethoven'.

The difference between Beethoven and Mahler is the difference betweenwatching a great manwalkdownthe street and watching a great actor act the part of a great man walking down the street.

-Copland, Aaron
Quoted in the Wall Street Journal, 9  Jun1995.

It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

-Forster, E(dward) M(organ)
  Howards End, ch.5.

I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First, to discourage the composer from writing any more, and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven.

-Heifetz,Jascha
  In Life.

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice†that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

-Nevelson, Louise
  Dawns and Dusks.

I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.

-Pele¤   pseudonym of  Edson Arantes do Nascimento
Quoted in ColinJarmanThe Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

-Ruskin,John
Letter.

From you, Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, The substance of my dreams took fire. You built cathedrals in my heart, And lit my pinnacled desire.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'Dead Musicians'.