Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes & Sayings

21 most famous Ludwig van Beethoven quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was a German composer who passed away on 26 March, 1827.

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

“Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.”

“I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.”

“This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.”

“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.”