Tag: Ludwig van Beethoven
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Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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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
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The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‘Thus far and no farther.’
Ludwig van Beethoven
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There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand – good heavens! – that’s what I really call troublesome.
Ludwig van Beethoven