I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

Mozart is the musical Christ.

Only music clarifies, reconciles, and consoles. But it is not a straw just barely clutched at. It is a faithful friend, protector, and comforter, and for its sake alone, life in this world is worth living. Who knows, perhaps in heaven there will be no music. So let us live on the earth while we still have life!