Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.