Ludwig van Beethoven's Quotes

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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

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 is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.