Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over. [Said on deathbed]
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
To play without passion is inexcusable!
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.
“It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce.