What I have achieved by industry and practice, anyone else with tolerable natural gift and ability can also achieve.

Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

I have always kept one end in view, namely ... to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.

Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine!

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.