Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

Explore a curated collection of 31 quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy — Ludwig van Beethoven
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind can — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, n — Ludwig van Beethoven
I shall seize fate by the throat. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. — Ludwig van Beethoven
If once he has got the right fingering, plays in good time, with the notes fairly correct, then only pull him up about t — Ludwig van Beethoven
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is — Ludwig van Beethoven
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed] — Ludwig van Beethoven
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I like your opera - I think I will set it to music — Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth. — Ludwig van Beethoven
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations. — Ludwig van Beethoven
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. — Ludwig van Beethoven
I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. — Ludwig van Beethoven