“ Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.” Ludwig van Beethoven FireMusicTearsWoman
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Ludwig van Beethoven HighMusicPhilosophyWisdom
“Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.” 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
“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.” Ludwig van Beethoven HighKnowledgeMusicWorldWisdomMankind
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” Ludwig van Beethoven AloneChildExperienceMoney
“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.” Ludwig van Beethoven Trouble
“ 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 MusicWin