Ludwig Van Beethoven Quotes

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

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

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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

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

Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

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

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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

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.