You're A Happy Fellow, For You'll Give

There Are And Always Will Be Thousands Of Princes, But There Is Only One Beethoven!

One Must Not Hold One's Self So Divine As To Be Unwilling Occasionally To Make Improvements In One's Creations.

Tones Sound, And Roar And Storm About Me Until I Have Set Them Down In Notes.

I Carry My Thoughts About Me For A Long Time, Often A Very Long Time, Before I Write Them Down; Meanwhile My Memory Is So Faithful That I Am Sure Never To Forget, Not Even In Years, A Theme That Has Once Occurred To Me.

Richard Wagner Commenting On The Music Of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He Was A Titan, Wrestling With The Gods.