Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

I shall hear in heaven.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

I love a tree more than a man.

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

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.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Wherever you are, I am there also.

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

Music can change the world.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

Love demands all, and has a right to all.