Quote

Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life.

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
Life
Alone
Happiness
Upholds
Art
Prevents
Ends
Recommend
Thought
Adversity
Give
Putting
Giving
Wealth
Children
Virtue

More quotes by Ludwig van Beethoven

Image
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?
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Handel, to him I bow the knee.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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
Image
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Good Morning, on July 7 My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all- Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever Thine Ever Mine Ever Yours
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
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
Image
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
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
Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Image
I love a tree more than a man.
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
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.
Ludwig van Beethoven