Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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.

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

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.