I shall seize fate by the throat.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Music comes to me more readily than words.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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

— Ludwig van Beethoven

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.

— Ludwig van Beethoven