Ludwig Van 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.

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!