Beethoven Quotes

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

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

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

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

Do not blame anyone if at last you don’t succeed because, your brain is solely responsible for this since this is where every seed of resolution will germinate.

Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!

By perceiving the end of those illusive ideas and statuses as real, see yourself as though you have already accomplished what you have had a revelation to do. Then go, make it happen.

Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!

A person without a purpose is a human being merely breathing because he does not know where he is, let alone knowing where he is going. Purposelessness is lifelessness.

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!

However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined.

One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.

Yes, when you are sharpened with the true information, you will be motivated to make impacts.

The poorest person on earth is not the person who has no job, no cars, no money and no house. The poorest person is the one who has no vision. Visionlessness is poverty in disguise.

The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do

A dream is the frame or portrait or a construction or focus of one's vision by means of perception, based on what he or she knows and settles within via strategic thinking.

Don't settle for anything less. Rise up and optimize your talents through strategic thinking and big dream. Your God should be your guide in all things.

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

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.

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

Music comes to me more readily than words.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

Music without the ebb and flow would be like "watching a film with only good guys in it." -attrib Frank Zappa

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

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