Ludwig van Beethoven famous quotes

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Music #Wisdom #Spiritual

Love demands all, and has a right to all.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Friendship #Friendship Love #Demand

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Music #Wisdom #Philosophy

To play without passion is inexcusable!
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Music #Passion #Play

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Inspirational #Life #Music

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Encouragement #War #Hard Work

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

#Music #Philosophy #Thinking

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

#Wish #Helping #Burden

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Men #Faces #Admiration

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
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Unattainable #Might #Strive

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.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Heart #Doe #Body

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

#Music #Storm #Sound

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Music #Art #Secret

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Night #Air #Hands

I want to seize fate by the throat.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Motivational #Fate #Want

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Love

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Jewels #Poetic #Poet

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Music #Eye #Heart

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.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Writing #Heart #Honor

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

#Fate #Overcoming #Throat

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.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Inspirational #Music #Wisdom

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

#Happiness #Children #Gold

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.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Mean #Spread

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

#Art #Firsts #Fame

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

#Inspiration #Men #Secret

I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Writing #Imagination #Trying

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

#Men #Rays #Divinity

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Perseverance #Fate #Men

The amount of money one needs is terrifying...
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Musical #Needs

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Children #Men #Air

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

#Writing #Letters #Alphabet

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Spiritual #Soul #Sensual

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

#Self #Improvement #Creation

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Intelligent #Misunderstood #Venture

I love a tree more than a man.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Men #Tree

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

#Forever #World #Produce

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.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven

#Music #Wine #Piano

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

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

#Music #Knowledge #World