Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.