Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
Ludwig van BeethovenOnly art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
Ludwig van BeethovenOh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
Ludwig van BeethovenMusic 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.
Ludwig van BeethovenHandel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
Ludwig van BeethovenI haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.
Ludwig van Beethoven