NOTE: This is a historical typing, so quotes are the basis of this typing conclusion.

Beethoven: "O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me."

Beethoven: "Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."

Beethoven: "I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?"

Beethoven: "I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me."

Beethoven: "I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, 'I am deaf.' If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap."

Beethoven: "Music comes to me more readily than words."

Beethoven: "The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun."

Beethoven: "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."

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."

Beethoven: "Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

Beethoven: "Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."

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

Beethoven: "There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome."

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

Beethoven: "I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time."