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

Oh you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you. Oh how harshly was I flung back by the doubly sad experience of my bad hearing.

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.

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

I shall seize fate by the throat.

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

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