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Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes about Writing

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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.

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
Writing, Heart, Honor
Ludwig van Beethoven (2009). “Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words: The Man and the Artist”, p.98, The Floating Press

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Writing, Letters, Alphabet
Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.31, BoD - Books on Demand

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Writing, Ideas, Years

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

Ludwig van Beethoven
Music, Writing, Thank God
Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822

I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Writing, Imagination, Trying

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

Ludwig van Beethoven
Writing, Thinking, Long
"Beethoven: The Man and the Artist".

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