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To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable.

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

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

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Artists are fiery, they do not weep!

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

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

The day-to-day exhausted me!

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

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

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Oh continue to love me -
never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

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

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

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

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Wherever you are, I am there also.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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!

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

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

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

The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.

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

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

I love a tree more than a man.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

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

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

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

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

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

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

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down.

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Music is the mediator between
the spiritual and the sensual life.

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

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

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

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[Said on his deathbed]

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

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

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.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

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

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

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

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

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

Art always demands of us something new.

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

Music can change the world.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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

The amount of money one needs is terrifying ...

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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

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

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

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

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

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.

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

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?

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent ...

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