From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

I want to seize fate by the throat.

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

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