Here’s a selection of Beethoven Quotes, covering topics such as playing a wrong note, copying, friendship, inspiration and life.
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
If they say they don’t like the way I play Beethoven, then I can swallow that, and maybe they’re right. But if they don’t like what I’ve written, then it’s about me.
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Don’t only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.
(applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)
[said on his deathbed].
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
With copious evidence ranging from Plato’s haughtiness to Beethoven’s tirades, we may conclude that the most brilliant people of history tend to be a prickly lot.
He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore.
I remembered that beethoven’s symphonies had sometimes been given names… They should have call [the fifth] the vampire, because it simply refused to lie down and die.
When beethoven made sharp response to a letter from his brother karl, who embellished his signature with the phrase “land-owner,” the composer added “brain-owner” to his own autograph.
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of gods.
Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
What makes a Beethoven symphony spectacular, what makes a Brahms rhapsody spectacular is that the patterns are wondrous.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Nowadays, people no longer know beethoven’s ninth from concerts, but form the for lines of the ‘ode to joy’ that they hear every day in the ad for bella perfume.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D.
Music is … A higher revelation than all wisdom & philosophy.
Beethoven had a great look. It was very much about the drama of appearance.
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.
When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
What I have in my heart and soul – must find a way out. That’s the reason for music.
Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one beethoven!.
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.
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
Music comes to me more readily than words.
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.
Ever thine, ever mine, ever ours.
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.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
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.
I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.
Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Art always demands of us something new.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Beethoven exprimiu tudo, tudo. Seu sucessor não poderá continuar; deverá começar de novo. Pois o mestre só acabou no ponto em que acaba a arte’.
franz grillparzer, discurso fúnebre por ocasião da morte de beethoven em 1827.
franz grillparzer, discurso fúnebre por ocasião da morte de beethoven em 1827.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
I like Beethoven, especially the poems.
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.
I shall seize fate by the throat.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
因为克利斯朵夫在青年成长的途中，而青年成长的途程就是一段混沌、暧昧、矛盾、骚乱的历史。顽强的意志，簇新的天才，被更趋顽强的和年代久远的传统与民族性拘囚在樊笼里。它得和社会奋斗，和过去的历史奋斗，更得和人类固有的种种根性奋斗。一个人唯有在这场艰苦的战争中得胜，才能打破青年期的难关而踏上成人的大道。.
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
I find little in the works of Beethoven, Berlioz, Wagner and others when they are led by a conductor who functions like a windmill.
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce.
Never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
As a kid, I loved classical music. Composers like Beethoven were like rock stars to me. Then there were the real rock stars: The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, and Bob Dylan.
There was one thing Beethoven didn’t do. When one of his string quartets was played, you can believe the second violin wasn’t improvising.
Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.
Every time I hear mozart, eine kleine nachtmusik and beethoven-symphony no.5 in c minor- it bring to mind those beautiful childhood memories of back home around noon time.
memories of my sweet barbados.
memories of my sweet barbados.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
I wouldn’t want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It’s very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don’t have the bass, it’s like being amputated. It’s like you have no legs.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther.’
Through this evening of sentences cut short because their completed meaning was always sorrow, of normal life dissolved to tears, the chords of beethoven sounded serenely.
[when asked why are numbers beautiful?]
it’s like asking why is ludwig van beethoven’s ninth symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing is.
I grew up on Bach and Beethoven, and now I’m listening to more modern composers who I can’t even name. But since I’m constantly doing music, it’s difficult to have that quality time to listen to music and do classical stuff.
Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning
Life can’t be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
Bach and Beethoven erected temples and churches on the heights. I only wanted to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
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