203 Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone – not wealth – can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce.

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

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.

Don’t regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

Only the flint of a man’s mind can strike fire in music.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart’s greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.