Quotes from Ludwig van Beethoven

La música es el vino que inspira nuevas creaciones y yo soy Baco que prensa este delicioso vino para los hombres y los embriaga espiritualmente

Prince, what you are, you are through chance and birth; what I am, I am through my own labor. There are many princes and there will continue to be thousands more, but there is only one Beethoven.

La música es una manifestación superior a toda sabiduría de la filosofía.

Prince, what you are you are by accident of birth; what I am I am through myself. There have been and still will be thousands of princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.

Wie Du mich auch liebst, stärker liebe ich Dich doch. Doch nie verberge Dich vor mir.

El genio se compone del dos por ciento de talento y del noventa y ocho por ciento de perseverante aplicación

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

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

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

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.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

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

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

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

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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

I shall seize fate by the throat.

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

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours