Ludwig van Beethoven, born in the Archdiocese of Cologne in 1770, was a German composer, pianist and conductor. He is considered one of the most relevant composers in history and was the last great representative of Viennese classicism. Below we have collected the most important phrases of Beethoven , on which it is worth reflecting.
Beethoven quotes
- Genius is made up of two percent talent and ninety-eight percent persevering application.
- The barriers that tell the genius: «You will not pass from here» have not yet been raised.
- Take action instead of begging. Sacrifice yourself with no hope of glory or reward! If you want to know the miracles, do them before. Only in this way can your peculiar destiny be fulfilled
- Do what it takes to achieve your most ardent desire, and you will end up achieving it.
- Never break the silence if it is not for improve it
- Make other men happy: there is nothing better or more beautiful
- There are times when it seems to me that language is still absolutely useless.
- A kind word makes you lose nothing
- Music should make blood flow from the heart of man, and tears from the eyes of woman
- Architecture is a music of stones and music, an architecture of sounds
- Recommend to your children that they be virtuous, only virtue can bring happiness, not money
- I will seize fate by grabbing it by the neck. Will not dominate me
- It is the same rain that makes brambles and thorns grow in uncultivated land, and in gardens, flowers.
- He is an ignoble man who does not know how to die. I’ve known him since I was fifteen.
- How happy I am to be able to wander through the woods and thickets, among trees, flowers and rocks… in the field, each tree seems to speak to me, saying: «Holy! Holy ‘, in the forest, there is an enchantment that expresses all things.
- Music is the only disembodied entrance into the higher world of knowledge that understands humanity, but that humanity cannot understand.
- It is curious to see how as theoretical freedoms increase, practical freedoms decrease.
- I have no friend. I must live alone; but I know well that God is closer to me than others in my art, so I will walk without fear with him.
- Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can’t do anything else on earth.
- With men who do not believe in me, I cannot and do not want to associate.
