such incidents brought me to the verge of despair, but little more and I would have put an end to my life - only art it was that withheld me, - ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I had felt called upon to produce.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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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.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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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

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To play without passion is inexcusable!

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music can change the world.

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Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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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.

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

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

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What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

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Art always demands of us something new.

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Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

Ludwig van Beethoven

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I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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