The study of the history of music and the hearing of masterworks of different epochs will quickly cure you of vanity and self-adoration

You will be most readily cured of vanity or presumption by studying the history of music, and by hearing the master pieces which have been produced at different periods.

To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of

Summit or death, either way, I win.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond

The painter turns a poem into a painting; the musician sets a picture to music.