Beethoven/character

Famous quotes containing the words beethoven and/or character:

“No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.”
—Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827)

“Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1966)