It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

Richard Wagner commenting on the music of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He was a Titan, wrestling with the Gods.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

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