| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » Ludwig van Beethoven German Composer the predominant musical figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic era. 1770-1827 | | Quotes: 21 - 34 of 34 | Pages: First Previous 1 2 | | | | | | No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. | | Art | | | Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors | | Uncategorized | | | 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! | | Happiness | | | Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. | | Art; Purity | | | Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. | | Uncategorized | | | Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life. | | Uncategorized | | | Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience. | | Uncategorized | | | Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on the backside. | | Uncategorized | | | The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.' | | Uncategorized | | | Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning | | Uncategorized | | | This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. | | Men | | | Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. | | Uncategorized | | | 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. | | Uncategorized | | | Your love makes me at once the happiest and the unhappiest of men | | Uncategorized | | | | | | | |
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