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Ludwig van Beethoven quotes - page 2
I want to seize fate by the throat.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Never shall I forget the times I spent with you continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
Ludwig van Beethoven
It is a recognised fact that the greatest composers were likewise the greatest virtuosos; but did they play like the pianists of the present day, who run up and down the keyboard with passages studied beforehand? Pooh! pooh! pooh! Don't tell me! A real virtuoso, when extemporising, plays pieces which hold together and possess a form. Were the ideas in them fixed instantly on paper, they would be taken for pieces written at leisure. That is what I call playing the piano; everything else is a bad joke.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I will hear in heaven!
Ludwig van Beethoven
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.
Ludwig van Beethoven
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Ludwig van Beethoven
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The day-to-day exhausted me!
Ludwig van Beethoven
One clashes with stupidity of all kinds. And then how much money must be spent in advance! The way in which artists are treated is really scandalous. I am compelled to give a third of my receipts to the manager of the theatre and a fifth to the hospitals. Devil take them! As long as these abuses exist, I shall always ask whether music is or is not an art that may be freely exercised. Believe me, there is nothing to be done for artists in times like these.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I met [Meyerbeer] at the performance of my "Battle." Most of the composers then in Vienna were kind enough to undertake something or other in my orchestra, and the young man played the big drum. Ha! ha! ha! (a peal of laughter). I had reason not to be very well satisfied with him. He was always behindhand, and I had to give it him roundly. (New peal of laughter.) He must have felt mortified by my observations; but there is no reliance to be placed in him; he has not the courage to raise his arm at the proper moment.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Must it be? It must be.
Ludwig van Beethoven
O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The guitar is a miniature orchestra in itself.
Ludwig van Beethoven
ever thine, ever mine, ever ours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther."
Ludwig van Beethoven
Oh continue to love me - never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. ever thine ever mine ever ours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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
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