Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times
If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.
An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.