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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.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Age: 56 †
Born: 1770
Born: December 16
Died: 1827
Died: March 26
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Oh 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. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.
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All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
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Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.
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One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
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I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
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Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.
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I will seize fate by the throat it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
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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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I am resolved to rise superior to every obstacle. With whom need I be afraid of measuring my strength? I will take Fate by the throat. It shall not overcome me. O how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times!
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Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
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It is my belief one should not belittle the artist while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.
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There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
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Wherever you are, I am there also.
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