Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes - Page 5

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• Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Art, Secret, Deafness

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• To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

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  Honor, Highest

  Ludwig Van Beethoven (2004). “Beethoven: The Man and the Artist”, p.80, 1st World Publishing

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• I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

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  Love, I Can

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2017). “Delphi Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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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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  Artist, Common Folk, Olympus

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• I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

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  Love, Inspiring, Thinking

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• Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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  Spiritual, Soul, Sensual

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

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  Music, Storm, Sound

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

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• When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Eye, Thinking

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• There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

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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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  Art, Levels, Existence Of Life

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• I want to seize fate by the throat.

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  Motivational, Attitude, Fate

  Letter to F.G. Wegeler, November 16, 1801.

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• There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

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  Mean, Race, Rays

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• Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

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  Art, Children, Adversity

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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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  Men, Want, Ethics

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

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  Music, Writing, Thank God

  Letter to Ferdinand Ries, 20 Dec. 1822

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• I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.

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  Writing, Imagination, Trying

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• Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

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  Self, Bass, Arguing

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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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  Music, Wrestling, Vans

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• Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.

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  Children, Sorrow, Cost

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• I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

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  Writing, Thinking, Long

  "Beethoven: The Man and the Artist".

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• Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

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  Lying, Heart, Soup

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

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• There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

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  Men, Rays, Divinity

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, Delayna Beattie (2002). “Beethoven Library of Piano Works: Bagatelles, Sonatinas, Piano Pieces, and Variations”, p.9, Alfred Music Publishing

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• It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

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  Children, Wish, May

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• After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

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  Rossini, Dies

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• I shall seize fate by the throat.

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  Fate, Destiny, Throat

  Ludwig van Beethoven (2014). “Beethoven's Letters”, p.36, Cambridge University Press

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