Study Bach. There you will find everything.

In him converge all previous streams of tendency, not as into a pool, stagnant, passive, motionless, but as a noble river that received its tributary waters and bearss them onward in larger and statelier volume.

Study Bach. There you will find everything.

One should never forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by starting or half-finishing a dozen.

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.

Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration.

Those are miracles that no merely human brain can work. The artist is merely the sound conduct of a Force that dictates to him what he should do.