Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes About Music

Quotes about: Music

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  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.

• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  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

• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

• To play without passion is inexcusable!

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Passion, Play

• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.17, 1st World Publishing

• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Eye, Heart

• 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.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspirational, Music, Wisdom

• Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Art, Secret

• 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.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Fashion, Art

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Knowledge, World

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• Music can change the world.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Peace, World

• Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Thinking, Giving

• 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.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wine, Piano

• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Writing, Thank God

  Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822

• Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Storm, Sound

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.34, 1st World Publishing

• Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wrestling, Vans

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