Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven [1770– 1827] was a German composer
Poets
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Music
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”
"Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Virtue
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
On Beethoven
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.”
"I want to seize fate by the throat."