Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

“Plaudite comedia finitaapplaud comedy

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

[Said on his deathbed]”

pure heart good soup

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

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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“To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.”

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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“There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!”

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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“Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.”

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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"Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning"

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

artist learned trust himself

"An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself."

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

you are accident birth myself thousand princes one Beethoven

"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."

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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"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 (1770-1827)

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"In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives."

― Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)