One Must Not Hold One's Self So

You Ask Me Where I Get My Ideas. That I Cannot Tell You With Certainty. They Come Unsummoned, Directly, Indirectly - I Could Seize Them With My Hands - Out In The Open Air, In The Woods, While Walking, In The Silence Of The Nights, At Dawn, Excited By Moods Which Are Translated By The Poet Into Words, By Me Into Tones That Sound And Roar And Storm About Me Till I Have Set Them Down In Notes.

It Seemed Unthinkable For Me To Leave The World Forever Before I Had Produced All That I Felt Called Upon To Produce

The Vibrations On The Air Are The Breath Of God Speaking To Man's Soul. Music Is The Language Of God. We Musicians Are As Close To God As Man Can Be. We Hear His Voice, We Read His Lips, We Give Birth To The Children Of God, Who Sing His Praise. That's What Musicians Are.

An Artist Is Someone Who Has Learned To Trust In Himself.

Richard Wagner Commenting On The Music Of Ludvig Van Beethoven: He Was A Titan, Wrestling With The Gods.