Words matter. These are the best Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.
I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‘I am deaf.’ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
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!
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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.
Music comes to me more readily than words.
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther.’
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
