203 Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

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.

I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

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

What I have in my heart and soul – must find a way out. That’s the reason for music.

Thousands of people cultivate music; but few have the revelation of this great art.