Ludwig Van Beethoven Quotes

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

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

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

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

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

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.