Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.
Bring me coffee before I turn into a goat!
I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.
My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.