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Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom And Philosophy. Music Is The Electrical Soil In Which The Spirit Lives, Thinks And Invents.

I Know Of No More Sacred Duty Than To Rear And Educate A Child.

I Haven't A Single Friend; I Must Live Alone. But Well I Know That God Is Nearer To Me Than To The Others Of My Art; I Associate With Him Without Fear, I Have Always Recognized And Understood Him, And I Have No Fear For My Music,-it Can Meet No Evil Fate. Those Who Understand It Must Become Free From All The Miseries That The Others Drag With Them.

What Is To Reach The Heart Must Come From Above; If It Does Not Come From Thence, It Will Be Nothing But Notes, Body Without Spirit.

This Is The Mark Of A Really Admirable Man: Steadfastness In The Face Of Trouble.