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You ask me where I get my ide...

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

Recommend to your children to...

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

We all make mistakes, but eve...

We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

Hide your secret even from th...

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

Everything should be at once ...

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

Off with you! You're a happy ...

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 166 quotes

Music is a higher revelation ...

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

There ought to be an artistic...

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 166 quotes

Only the pure in heart can ma...

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

A true artist is expected to ...

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

Music is the one incorporeal ...

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

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

When somewhat at a distance, ...

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 166 quotes

Nothing is more intolerable t...

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

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

I joyfully hasten to meet dea...

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

The true artist is not proud:...

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 166 quotes

Don't only practice your art,...

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

O, you men who think or say t...

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

What you are, you are by acci...

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

Art always demands of us some...

Art always demands of us something new.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

I only live in my music, and ...

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Ludwig van Beethoven 166 quotes

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