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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.
In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.
Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?
Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.
Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
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.
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
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.
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.
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.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.