Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.

Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.