203 Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

To make a mistake is insignificant. To play without passion is inexcusable.

Is it not beautiful?

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again; it disappears; it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again; I seize it; I embrace it with delight.

(Death): Come when thou will: I shall meet thee bravely.