Beethoven Quotes

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

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

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

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music can change the world.

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.

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

I love a tree more than a man.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

I shall hear in heaven.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

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

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

Art always demands of us something new.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.