Music Is Mediator Between Spiritual And Sensual

I Love A Tree More Than A Man.

Tones Sound, And Roar And Storm About Me Until I Have Set Them Down In Notes.

Yet It Was Impossible For Me To Say To People, 'speak Louder, Shout, For I Am Deaf.' Ah, How Could I Possibly Admit An Infirmity In The One Sense Which Ought To Be More Perfect In Me Than Others, A Sense Which I Once Possessed In The Highest Perfection, A Perfection Such As Few In My Profession Enjoy Or Ever Have Enjoyed.

Artists Are Fiery; They Do Not Weep.

Music Is Like A Dream. One That I Cannot Hear.