True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
Music is the only art that actually lives.
Art must be a slow and normal evolution.
Intellectual isolation always follows commercial isolation.
I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?