The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.