Quotes by : Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this....

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children;....

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

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

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic....

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

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.