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, to him I bow the knee.

Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.

What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.