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Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

Ludwig van Beethoven
  • "A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. "
  • "Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. "
  • "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. "
  • "Friends applaud, the comedy is over."
  • "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
  • "Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. "
  • "Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. "
  • "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. "
  • "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."
  • "Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. "
  • "Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."
  • "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! "
  • "Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."
  • "Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. "
  • "The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." "
  • "This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."
  • "Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."
  • "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."


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