Quotes About Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

#1. There is no reason why a joke should not be appreciated more than once. Imagine how little good music there would be if, for example, a conductor refused to play Beethoven's Fifth Symphony on the ground that his audience might have heard it before.

A.P. Herbert

#2. Kahn once said, The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

Robert Hughes

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

E. M. Forster

#4. Well done, my fine fellow out of my womb. What have you gained? Nothing! And oh, what have you lost? Everything!

Jeanette Winterson

#5. Even if one is neither vain nor self-obsessed, it is so extraordinary to be oneself - exactly oneself and no one else - and so unique, that it seems natural that one should also be unique for someone else.

Simone De Beauvoir

#6. To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.

Clyde Tombaugh

#7. Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

George Edward Woodberry

#8. The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Jonathan Culler

#9. Those who babble the Lord's Prayer day and night would be the first to grin when I'm set afire.

Robert McCammon

#10. Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.

Max Lucado

#11. It takes about twenty seconds for me to realize

Kim Holden

#12. The central question is simply put: What did the president know and when did he know it?

Howard Baker

#13. To my astonishment I saw him standing at a table with Kitty Jones. It was the Kitty Jones bit that was astonishing. Not the table. Though it was very nicely polished.

Jonathan Stroud

#14. Surely enough books have been written about heroines in similar circumstances. There is no need to go into the details of Alvina's six months in Islington.

D.H. Lawrence

#15. Food is at the core of our lives in ways we don't always think about - how it affects our environment, how it affects our health and well-being, how it affects the expense of society, the expense of government.

Cory Booker

#16. It's fun to be someone else.

Judy Gold

#17. This is the only country in the world where today's employee, is tomorrow's employer.

Marco Rubio

#18. A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

Jerry Seinfeld