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

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

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.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the woods! Almighty One, In the woods I am blessed. Happy every one in the woods. Every tree speaks through Thee. O God! What glory in the woodland.