Ludwig van BeethovenThinkers

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

Music is a stuff that should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music has a power to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes. We can hope to be but Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.