Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is
Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…[on his death bed]
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
I like your opera – I think I will set it to music
Beethoven can write music thank God – but he can do nothing else on earth.
One must not hold one’s self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one’s creations.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
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.
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!
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.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?