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Music Quotes by 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…
- Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
- Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
- Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
- Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
- Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.
- 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.
- Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
- Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
- He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.
- Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
- I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my…
- I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.
- Music can change the world.
- Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like…
- 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…
- The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close…
- Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet…
- Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I…
- Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.
- It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
- What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the…
- To play without passion is inexcusable!
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