Ludwig van Beethoven - Quotes
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Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? ---->>>

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

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. ---->>>
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. ---->>>
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! ---->>>
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. ---->>>
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life. ---->>>

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.
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' ---->>>
Friends applaud, the comedy is over. ---->>>
Biography
Ludwig van Beethoven (, ; German: [ˈluːtvɪç fan ˈbeːtˌhoˑfn̩]; baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential of all composers (wikipedia)