Ludwig van Beethoven

I shall seize fate by the throat.

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.

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

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

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

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. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.

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

Don__ only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

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.

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

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.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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!

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.

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

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