Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

About Ludwig van Beethoven:

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers. His best-known compositions include 9 symphonies, 5 concertos for piano, 1 violin concerto, 32 piano sonatas, and 16 string quartets. He also composed other chamber music, choral works (including the celebrated Missa solemnis), and songs.
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Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

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 would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Ludwig van Beethoven

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven

To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

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

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [ ]

Ludwig van Beethoven

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

Ludwig van Beethoven

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Author Bio

  • NameLudwig van Beethoven
  • DescriptionGerman composer
  • AliasesLodewijk van Beethoven; Beethoven
  • BornDecember 16, 1770
  • DiedMarch 26, 1827
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionComposer; Pianist; Conductor; Music Educator
  • WorksFür Elise; Anthem Of Europe; Piano Sonata No. 14