Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes About Music
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Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
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To play without passion is inexcusable!
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Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
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Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?
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Music can change the world.
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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.
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
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Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
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Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
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What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
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Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.
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Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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