To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

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

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

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.

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.