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

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'