Ludwig van Beethoven Composer Quotations

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.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.