But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

The vibrations on the air are the breath of God speaking to man's soul. Music is the language of God. We musicians are as close to God as man can be. We hear his voice, we read his lips, we give birth to the children of God, who sing his praise. That's what musicians are.

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

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

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

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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