Author: Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music comes to me more readily than words.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

- 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 them spiritually drunken.

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.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

- Ludwig van Beethoven

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