Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!
Bach is Bach just as God is God.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love
The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.