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

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

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

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

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.

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.