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To play without passion is inexcusable!
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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L. van Beethoven
Ludvig van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
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Ludwik van Beethoven
Louis 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.
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Artists are fiery they do not weep.
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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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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.
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Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king
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Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
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If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
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It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
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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.
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This is not a brook [Bach means brook in German], it's an ocean.
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What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
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Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.
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How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, Holy! Holy, in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.
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Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.
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I don't want to know anything about your system of ethics. Strength is the morality of the man who stands out from the rest, and it is mine.
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We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.
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