Bach is Bach just as God is God.

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

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

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.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.