Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is
I like your opera - I think I will set it to music
Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me...
Music comes to me more readily than words.
Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that poin...
Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman.