Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
A source page for quotes linked to Ludwig van Beethoven.
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“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”
“Μόνο η τέχνη και η επιστήμη μπορούν να εξισώσουν τους ανθρώπους με τους θεούς.”
“Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.”
Source: Heiligenstadt Testament
“To make a mistake is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.”
“Anyone who tells a lie has not pure heart, and cannot make good soup.”
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.”
Source: The letters of Beethoven
Source: Heiligenstädter Testament
“Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?”
“Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king”
“My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.”
Source: Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)
“After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?”
“I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.”
Source: Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words
“If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?”
“Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.”
“Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.”
Source: Beethoven: The Man and the Artist
“In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.”
“Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.”
Source: Letters
“Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times”
“What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.”
“This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.”
“Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.”
“Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.”
“Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.”
“The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.”