Beethoven quotes

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.

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