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

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

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.

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

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.