I Shall Seize Fate By The Throat.

Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom And Philosophy.

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.

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.

There Is No Loftier Mission Than To Approach The Godhead More Nearly Than Other Mortals, And By Means Of That Contact To Spread The Rays Of The Godhead Through The Human Race.

Even In Poverty I Lived Like A King For I Tell You That Nobility Is The Thing That Makes A King