Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
Only art and science can raise men to the level of God.
Art demands of us that we shall not stand still.
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.