Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist.

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

Do you think I give a damn about your and your pathetic violin?

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.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.