Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
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.
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
I want to seize fate by the throat.