“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
“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [Said on his deathbed]Ludwig van Beethoven
“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
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.Ludwig van Beethoven