“Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand”

“Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once”

“When music technology takes the place of musicianship, it's time to pull the plug”

“Bang-whang-whang goes the drum, tootle-tetootle the fife; no keeping one's haunches still: it's the greatest pleasure in life”

“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”

“Where words fail, music speaks”