Ludwig van Beethoven

What is difficult is also beautiful.

I have never been able to flatter people; I am too blunt for that.

To live without composing is to live without joy.

I shall remain a bachelor all my life, as I have found no one who understands me.

My condition has not improved, and I am still suffering from my hearing.

True art is rebellious.

I am not accustomed to being contradicted.

Genius is composed of ninety percent perspiration and ten percent inspiration.

I live only in my music, and I have scarcely begun a work when I am already thinking of the next.

The kingdom of heaven is within us.

I must confess that I am a little deaf.

I will not let my spirit be broken.

The cello is a stupid instrument.

I hate the sound of the flute.

The metronome is a useless invention.

I have always counted myself among the greatest geniuses.

He who understands my music will be freed from the miseries of the world.

The day will come when I shall be able to speak to God without an interpreter.

I am not a man whom one can command so easily.

My works are not for the multitude, but for the chosen few.