If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.