Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

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

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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.

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

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Music can change the world.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

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.

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

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

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.

The guitar is an orchestra in itself.

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

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.

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

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.

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.