Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ludwig van Beethoven
Age: 56 †
Born: 1770
Born: December 16
Died: 1827
Died: March 26
Composer
Conductor
Improviser
Music Pedagogue
Musician
Organist
Pianist
Violinist
Virtuoso
Bonn
Germany
Beethoven
L. van Beethoven
Ludvig van Beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
L. Bethovenas
Ludwik van Beethoven
Louis van Beethoven
L. v. Beethoven
L. van Betkhoven
Toward
Learning
Stop
Given
Unattainable
Might
Gifts
Right
Fully
Never
Develop
Strive

More quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

Image
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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!
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
The guitar is an orchestra in itself.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
To play without passion is inexcusable!
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Wherever you are, I am there also.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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
Image
It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven