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Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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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There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.
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Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
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An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.
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Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.
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I love a tree more than a man.
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One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.
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Artists are fiery they do not weep.
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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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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!
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I will seize fate by the throat it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
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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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A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
Ludwig van Beethoven
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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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.
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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.
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