Ludwig van Beethoven > Quotes

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

[Said on his deathbed]”
― 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

“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Good Morning, on July 7

My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-
Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever Thine
Ever Mine
Ever Yours”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.”
― Beethoven

“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

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

“I shall seize fate by the throat.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“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

“ever thine, ever mine, ever ours”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I love a tree more than a man.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“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 me in time of misery.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“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

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

“I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Love demands all, and has a right to all.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

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

“What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.”
― Beethoven Ludwig van

“Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven