ever thine, ever mine, ever ours

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Yet it was impossible for me to say to people, 'Speak louder, shout, for I am deaf.' Ah, how could I possibly admit an infirmity in the one sense which ought to be more perfect in me than others, a sense which I once possessed in the highest perfection, a perfection such as few in my profession enjoy or ever have enjoyed.

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.