Ludwig van Beethoven Thinking Quotations

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down.

Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.