Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”

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

“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!”

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

“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 is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.”

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