Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.

My fatherland has always the first claim on me.

Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Even when I can play Europe's most precious keyboard, to have to listen to people who don't understand, or do not want to understand, and who are incapable of grasping my intent, whatever I play, does surely forfeit my lust for playing at all.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.