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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
All beautiful and noble qualities have been united in me... I shall be the fruit which will leave eternal vitality behind even after its decay. How great must be your joy, therefore, to have given birth to me.
To understand the nature of the people one must be a prince, and to understand the nature of the prince, one must be of the people.
I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?
I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.
To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true.
I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.
I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.
I think of myself as a young prince from a long line of royalty.
You were born as the one you are.