Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes - Page 3

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

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

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

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

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.

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

I love a tree more than a man.

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.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

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.

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

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

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 mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.