Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.
Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
The amount of money one needs is terrifying.
Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us.