It is a real pleasure to see music so bright and spontaneous expressed with corresponding ease and grace.

To follow in Beethoven's footsteps transcends one's strength.

A symphony is no joke.

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.

In my study I can lay my hand on the Bible in the pitch dark. All truly inspired ideas come from God. The powers from which all truly great composers like Mozart, Schubert, Bach and Beethoven drew their inspirations is the same power that enabled Jesus to do his miracles.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

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.