Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.
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.
Play the music, not the instrument.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.
If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is.
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in Salzburg:I have it in my pocket.
