Ludwig Van Beethoven : Quotes

• “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
• “Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
• “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
• “To play without passion is inexcusable!”
• “Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
• “Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”
• “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
• “Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.”
• “This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”
• “Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”

• “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets.”
• “A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
• “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”
• “Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
• “Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.”
• “Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.”
• “The amount of money one needs is terrifying…”
• “One must not hold one’s self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one’s creations.”
• “There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”
• “Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”

• “Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.”
• “The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ”Thus far and no farther.”
• “Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
• “Friends applaud, the comedy is over.”
• “Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
• “A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
• “Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear”