Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

I love a tree more than a man.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

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.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.