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.

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

I shall hear in heaven.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

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.