I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.

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

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

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

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours