Without music, life would be a mistake.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.
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!
The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
I have always kept one end in view, namely, to conduct a well-regulated church music to the honour of God.
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.
Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with his gracious presence.
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art, for I am no painter. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
Music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it.
I am a composer, and I was born a Kapellmeister. I must not and cannot bury my gift for composing.
