“Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”

“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”

“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup. ”

“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce”