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“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Bach is an astronomer, discovering the most marvellous stars. Beethoven challenges the universe. I only try to express the soul and the heart of man.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.

(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)

[Said on his deathbed]”
― 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

“To play without passion is inexcusable!”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
― Frédéric Chopin

“When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.”
― Frederic Chopin

“The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.”
― Franz Liszt