Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Oh continue to love me – never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. ever thine ever mine ever ours.
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours.
I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
Music can change the world.
Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.
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.
The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.
Handel, to him I bow the knee.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.
Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.
The guitar is an orchestra in itself.
Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive – would that I could live a thousand times.
I shall hear in heaven.
Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.