{"quotes":[{"text":"I should think that to hear such lovely music as that would really make him feel better.'The lady gave a discriminating smile.\t“I am afraid there are moments in life when even Beethoven has nothing to say to us. We must admit, however, that they are our worst moments.","author":"Henry James","tags":["beethoven","life","music"],"id":6453,"author_id":"Henry+James"},{"text":"Beethoven introduced us to anger. Haydn taught us capriciousness, Rachmaninoff melancholy. Wagner was demonic. Bach was pious. Schumann was mad, and because his genius was able to record his fight for sanity, we heard what isolation and the edge of lunacy sounded like. Liszt was lusty and vigorous and insisted that we confront his overwhelming sexuality as well as our own. Chopin was a poet, and without him we never would have understood what night was, what perfume was, what romance was.","author":"Doris Mortman","tags":["beethoven","chopin","classical","composers","music","schumann"],"id":83586,"author_id":"Doris+Mortman"},{"text":"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.","author":"Ludwig van Beethoven","tags":["beethoven","music","music-theory"],"id":86960,"author_id":"Ludwig+van+Beethoven"},{"text":"A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver with his license revoked. That would throw anybody for a loop, don't you think? But Beethoven didn't let it get to him. Sure, he must have been a little depressed at first, but he didn't let misfortune get him down. It was like, Problem? What problem? He composed more than ever and came up with better music than anything he'd ever written. I really admire the guy. Like this Archduke Trio--he was nearly deaf when he wrote it, can you believe it? What I'm trying to say is, it must be tough on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on--your strengths. Like being able to talk with the stone.","author":"Haruki Murakami","tags":["beethoven","composer","inspirational","reading"],"id":99572,"author_id":"Haruki+Murakami"},{"text":"Don’t say you don’t have enough time or enough money to change the world. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Gandhi, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci and Jesus Christ.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["activism","attention","beethoven","choices","christ","christianity","copeouts","create-music","dance","destinations","dream-big","dreams","excuses","focus","gandhi","gifts","goals","helen-keller","inspire","invent","journeys","leonardo-da-vinci","michelangelo","mother-teresa","procastination","pushing-yourself","serve","stop-settling","talents","teach","write-books"],"id":99768,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["beethoven","music"],"id":199939,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of Beethoven sounded serenely.","author":"Rebecca West","tags":["beethoven","sadness","sorrow","wwii"],"id":207004,"author_id":"Rebecca+West"},{"text":"No; look out for the part where you think you have done with the goblins and they come back,' breathed Helen, as the music started with a goblin walking quietly over the universe, from end to end.","author":"E.M. Forster","tags":["beethoven","howards-end","music"],"id":254135,"author_id":"E.M.+Forster"},{"text":"Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.","author":"Mike Norton","tags":["afraid","beethoven","confidence","correct","fear","incorrect","learn","mastery","note","right","student","wrong"],"id":295137,"author_id":"Mike+Norton"},{"text":"Consciousness is our gateway to experience: It enables us to recognize Van Gogh’s starry skies, be enraptured by Beethoven’s Fifth, and stand in awe of a snowcapped mountain. Yet consciousness is subjective, personal, and famously difficult to examine.","author":"Daniel Bor","tags":["awe","beauty","beethoven","consciousness","experience","ludwig-van-beethoven","science","van-gogh","vincent-van-gogh"],"id":346014,"author_id":"Daniel+Bor"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}