Beethoven Quotes

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

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

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

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

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

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

Wherever you are, I am there also.

I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

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

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

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

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.