I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

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

I shall hear in heaven.