203 Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

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?

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

The amount of money one needs is terrifying...

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.