Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.
Ludwig van BeethovenHandel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.
Ludwig van BeethovenThen 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
Ludwig van BeethovenMusic is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Ludwig van BeethovenThe barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Ludwig van BeethovenIt is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.
Ludwig van Beethoven