This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Ludwig van BeethovenMy heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
Ludwig van BeethovenHe who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
Ludwig van BeethovenYou ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.
Ludwig van Beethoven