Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

For once you are going to hear a dream, a dream that I have made sound... I dreamed all this; never could my poor head have invented such a thing.

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.

These revelations expressed through Art work upon the soul with a force carrying its own conviction and permeate our sentient life with a sense of truth which logic and mere reason are powerless to combat.

...music is the living God in our bosoms.

I know absolutely nothing about music.