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Ludwig van Beethoven

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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

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

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [Said on his deathbed]

Ludwig van Beethoven

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The world is a king, and, like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse—it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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I shall seize fate by the throat.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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