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I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.
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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Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
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Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
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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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Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers from him I can still learn.
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But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.
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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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My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.
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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.
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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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I shall seize fate by the throat.
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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.
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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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This is not a brook [Bach means brook in German], it's an ocean.
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Hide your secret even from the closest friend learn to be silent.
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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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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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I shall hear in heaven.
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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
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Men are not only together when they are with each other even the distant and the dead live with us.
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