Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Heart, Soul, Way

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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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  Burdens Of Life, Wish, Helping

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• The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

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  Children, Men, Air

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• Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

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  Heart, Special, Would Be

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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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  Music, Philosophy, Thinking

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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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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  Inspirational, Music, Wisdom

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• Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

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  Unattainable, Might, Strive

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• To play without passion is inexcusable!

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  Music, Passion, Play

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• An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

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  Life, Art, Artist

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• Music can change the world.

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  Music, Peace, World

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• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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  Birth, Composer, Composing Music

  Letter to Prince Karl Lichnowsky, 1806

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• We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

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  Mistake, Inspiration, Different

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• Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

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  Secret, Silent, Closest Friends

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• I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

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  Writing, Heart, Honor

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2009). “Beethoven, as Revealed in His Own Words: The Man and the Artist”, p.98, The Floating Press

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• The real artist has no pride. Unfortunately he sees that his art has no limits. He feels obscurely how far he is from the goal.
  While he is perhaps being admired by others, he mourns the fact that he has not yet reached the point to which his better genius, like a distant sun, ever beckons to him.

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  Art, Real, Pride

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• Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

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  Music, Spiritual, Wisdom

  Attributed to Ludwig van Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (May 28, 1810), as quoted in Bettina von Arnim "Goethe's Correspondence with a Child", 1835.

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• We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

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  Joy, Mind, Suffering

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Dream, Music Is

  Conversations Magazine, January 1801.

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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, Eye, Heart

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• In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust.

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  Light, Rocks, People

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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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  Night, Air, Hands

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• In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

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  Art, Progress, World

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• Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

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  Should, Inevitable, Surprising

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

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  War, Lying, Heart

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• I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.

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  Art, Fate, Evil

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.45, 1st World Publishing

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