Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes, Thoughts and images

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Music can change the world.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

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

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

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

Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

I shall hear in heaven.

Art always demands of us something new.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

I love a tree more than a man.

To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

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

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

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

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

Love demands all, and has a right to all.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.