Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

“Dont 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”

“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

“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. ”

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

“I shall seize fate by the throat.”

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld ...”

“The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that p...”

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

“If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about the rendering; and when he has arrived at that stage, dont let him stop for th...”

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

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

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

“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”

“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 l...”

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

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Music comes to me more readily than words.”

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