Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.