Ludwig van Beethoven Quotes

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life and to help you release your happiness to others.

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.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

What I have in my heart and soul must find a way out. That’s the reason for music.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Music can change the world.

I haven’t a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music, it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.