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To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Must it be? It must be. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy — Ludwig Van Beethoven

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Artists are fiery, they do not weep! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music comes to me more readily than words. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

The day-to-day exhausted me! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Wherever you are, I am there also. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

The guitar is an orchestra in itself. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

The amount of money one needs is terrifying ... — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Handel, to him I bow the knee. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours — Ludwig Van Beethoven

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Only the pure of heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

I want to seize fate by the throat. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music is the mediator between
the spiritual and the sensual life. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Love demands all, and has a right to all. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

On behalf of all that is good and melodic, Ludwig van Beethoven, I apologize. — Sarah Strohmeyer

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Music can change the world. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin? — Ludwig Van Beethoven

To play without passion is inexcusable! — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I love a tree more than a man. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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? — 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

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. — 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. — 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

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent ... — Ludwig Van Beethoven

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — 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 mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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. — 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

Art always demands of us something new. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

I shall seize fate by the throat. — Ludwig Van Beethoven