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

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes it pleased Thee to let me feel the heavy hand of Thy displeasure and to humiliate my proud heart by manifold castigations. Sickness and misfortune didst Thou send upon me to turn my thoughts to my errantries.-One thing, only, O Father, do I ask: cease not to labor for my betterment. In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to Thee and become fruitful in good works.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

I shall hear in heaven.