Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.