The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Handel, to him I bow the knee.

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.