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

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

Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

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

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Of all my children, this is the one that cost me the worst birth-pangs and brought me the most sorrow; and for that reason it is the one most dear to me.