Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Bach is Bach just as God is God.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.