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

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

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.