Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

German - Composer December 17, 1770 - March 26, 1827

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Music, Sensual, Spiritual

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Revelation, Than

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

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

Tears, Music, Woman

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine. Ludwig van Beethoven

Practice, Art, Deserves

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

Art, Concerning, Her

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. Ludwig van Beethoven

Feels, How Far, Artist

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Food, Soup, Only

Music comes to me more readily than words. Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, Readily, More

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Admit, More, Nothing

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

Mankind, Which, Comprehend

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

Will, Myself, Birth

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

Which, Aspiring, Barriers

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

Music, Storm, Set

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

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

Never, Certainly, Fate

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

Most, Precious, Nation

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

Happy, Recommend, Them

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. Ludwig van Beethoven

Other, Attend, Functions

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

Strength, Face, Admirable

O, 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, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me. Ludwig van Beethoven

My Life, Stubborn, Brought

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. Ludwig van Beethoven

Mistake, However, Other

Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me. Ludwig van Beethoven

Became, Year, Soul

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

Give, Other, Happy

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. Ludwig van Beethoven

Distance, Noticed, Voices

Friends applaud, the comedy is over. Ludwig van Beethoven

Over, Comedy, Applaud

There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome. Ludwig van Beethoven

Half, Artist, Good

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering? Ludwig van Beethoven

Fate, Death, Before

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