Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
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Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]
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You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.
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I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.
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such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.
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Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
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Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
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The amount of money one needs is terrifying.
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Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
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I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
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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.
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Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
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What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.
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He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
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It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
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It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.
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You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes.
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Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
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Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
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I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
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I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.
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Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
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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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An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
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Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.
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