You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion.
It should be one’s sole endeavor to see everything afresh and create it anew.
Life's been nothing but paperwork.
I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
In Bach, the vital cells of music are united as the world is in God.