Ludwig van Beethoven - Life Quotes

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What humiliation when someone who stood next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or when someone heard the shepherd boy singing and again I heard nothing. Such misfortune brought me to the edge of despair, and I might have brought an end to my life—only my art held me back.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music, verily, is the mediator between the life of the mind and the senses.

Variant translation: Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and sensual life.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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.

Ludwig van Beethoven