When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpoints to hack post-horses.