To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like experimenting- studying- reflecting.

Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

People err who think my art comes easily to me. I assure you, dear friend, nobody has devoted so much time and thought to compositions as I. There is not a famous master whose music I have not industriously studied through many times.