Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes - Page 2

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• I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!

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  Beautiful, Fate, Overcoming

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• Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Inspiration, Spirit, Contemplation

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• Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

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  Art, Men, Levels

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1961). “Letters”

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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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  Kings, Poverty, Nobility

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• Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

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  Food, Heart, Cooking

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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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  Art, Kings, Selfish

  Ludwig van Beethoven (1905). “Beethoven, the man and the artist: as revealed in his own words”

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

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  Men, Fire, Mind

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

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  Divine, Regard

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• The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

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  Heart, Soul, Foundation

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.103, 1st World Publishing

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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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  States, Power Of Music, Composer

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• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.

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  Men, Faces, Admiration

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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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• 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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• Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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  Encouragement, War, Hard Work

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• Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.

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  Men, Together

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.102, 1st World Publishing

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• Art always demands of us something new.

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  Art, Demand, Something New

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• Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

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  Should, Inevitable, Surprising

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

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Thinking, Giving

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• I shall hear in heaven.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Death, Heaven, Aging

  Quoted in Ian Crofton and Donald Fraser, A Dictionary of Musical Quotations (1985)

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• Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

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  Art, Demand, Stills

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

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  Music, Art, Secret

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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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• 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, Fashion, Art

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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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  Lasts, Admirer, Breaths

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• I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.

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  Children, Sacred, Duty

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2015). “Beethoven: As Revealed in His Own Words”, p.48, Sheba Blake Publishing

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