Love demands all, and has a right to all.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

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.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.