Ludwig Van Beethoven Love Quotes

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose. - Ludwig van Beethoven ~ Guy Kawasaki

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

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I? ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I want to seize fate by the throat. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

World, do you know your creator?
Seek him in the heavens
Above the stars must He dwell. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

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. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[Said on his deathbed] ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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! ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

To play without passion is inexcusable! ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

To sing a wrong note is insignificant, but to sing without passion is unforgivable. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

Wherever you are, I am there also. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them . ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.
While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven

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

What's all this about sin, eh?'
'That,' I said, very sick. 'Using Ludwig van like that. He did no harm to anyone. Beethoven just wrote music.' And then I was really sick and they had to bring a bowl that was in the shape of like a kidney.
'Music,' said Dr. Brodsky, like musing. 'So you're keen on music. I know nothing about it myself. It's a useful emotional heightener, that's all I know. Well, well. What do you think about that, eh, Branom?'
'It can't be helped,' said Dr. Branom. 'Each man kills the thing he loves ... ~ Anthony Burgess

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best. ~ Ludwig Van Beethoven