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

Art always demands of us something new.

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.

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

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

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.