There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.