Top 100 Ludwig Van Beethoven Quotes
#1. Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
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#2. Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived ... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
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#5. In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.
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#6. 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!
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#9. One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
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#10. I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.
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#11. Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
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#13. Such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.
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#14. To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
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#15. Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.
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#17. Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
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#18. The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
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#19. Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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#22. There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
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#24. Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[Said on his deathbed]
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#25. I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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#26. He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
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#27. Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
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#28. Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.
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#30. I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.
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#31. You - my life - my All - farewell.
Oh, go on loving me - never doubt
the faithfullest heart
Of your beloved
L
Ever thine
Ever mine
Ever ours.
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#32. 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?
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#34. Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.
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#35. All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
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#36. In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
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#37. Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
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#38. Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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#40. 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.
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#42. Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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#44. He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
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#45. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
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#48. Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
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#49. I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
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#50. I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.
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#51. I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive
would that I could live a thousand times!
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#54. 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.
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#56. Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
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#57. Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!
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#59. The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
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#60. Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
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#62. When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
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#63. Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.
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#64. She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?
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#66. Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
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#67. The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
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#68. You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.
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#69. Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
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#71. My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
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#73. A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
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#74. 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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#75. Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
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#76. What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
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#78. Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning
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#79. I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
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#80. Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
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#86. There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.
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#87. Oh continue to love me -
never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
ever thine
ever mine
ever ours
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#93. How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.
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#95. It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce
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#100. Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
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