It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce. - Beethoven
Music from my fourth year began to be the first of my youthful occupations. Thus early acquainted with the gracious muse who tuned my soul to pure harmonies, I became fond of her, and, as it often seemed to me, she of me. - Beethoven
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. - Beethoven
Never forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me yours. - Beethoven
Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that! - Beethoven
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est. (Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.) [Said on his deathbed] - Beethoven
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. - Beethoven
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. - Beethoven
You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes. - Beethoven
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss. - J.K. Rowling
Are you the sort of person who gloats when they see a woman fall, or the kind that celebrates a magnificent recovery? - J.K. Rowling
Every now and then I read a poem that does touch something in me, but I never turn to poetry for solace or pleasure in the way that I throw myself into prose. - J.K. Rowling
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. - J.K. Rowling
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