 Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? |
| Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. |
| Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. |
| 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! |
| The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." |
| A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. |
| 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 mediator between spiritual and sensual life. |
| Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. |
| Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth. |
| Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. |
| Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. |
| Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. |
| This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. |
| Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors. |
| Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. |
| Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the 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. |
| Friends applaud, the comedy is over. |
