Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.