Top 15 Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

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

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

[Said on his deathbed]

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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

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

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

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Good Morning, on July 7

My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all-
Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved.
Ever Thine
Ever Mine
Ever Yours

Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Only the pure of heart can make a good soup.

I shall seize fate by the throat.