Quote #16
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
More from Ludwig van Beethoven
- Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
- Do you think I worry about your lousy fiddle when the spirit moves me?
- Anyone who understands my music will never be unhappy again.
- I can't think about your miserable violin when I am speaking to my God!
- A colossus beyond the grasp of most mortals, with his totally uncompromising power, his unsensual and uningratiating way with music as with…
- Music is........ a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
- Everything will pass, and the world will perish but the Ninth Symphony will remain.
- Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.