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There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
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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To play without passion is inexcusable!
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I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.
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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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Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
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Handel, to him I bow the knee.
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Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
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If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?
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You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
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I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name Mother, and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?
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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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He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .
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Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
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I shall seize fate by the throat.
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