Ludwig van Beethoven – 13 Quotes

13 Quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

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

– Ludwig van Beethoven

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

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!

– Ludwig van Beethoven

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

– Ludwig van Beethoven

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

– Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

– Ludwig van Beethoven

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

– Ludwig van Beethoven

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

– Ludwig van Beethoven