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

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

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.

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

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.