Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

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

Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.