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.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that.

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

I shall hear in heaven.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.