Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

Music can change the world.