I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
From Ludwig van Beethoven
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.
Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me.
Friends applaud, the comedy is over.
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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