Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, Thus far and no farther.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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
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!
– Ludwig van Beethoven
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.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.