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“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”
“Music comes to me more readily than words.”
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
“Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“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.”
“Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!”
“Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.”
“Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
“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 p...”
“Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?”
“I like your opera - I think I will set it to music”
“Beethoven can write music thank God - but he can do nothing else on earth.”
“Music should strike fire from the heart of man and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.”
“Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy not gold.”
“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.”
“Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is”
