Play Always As If In The Presence

Nature Best Teaches How To Pray, And How To Reverence All The Gifts The Almighty Has Given Us. She Is Like A Vast Outspread Handkerchief, Embroidered With God's Eternal Name, On Which We May Dry Alike Our Tears Of Sorrow And Of Joy; She Turns Weeping Into Ecstasy, And Fills Our Hearts With Speechless, Quiet Reverence And Resignation.

I Sometimes Lack Confidence In Public, Although I Am Proud Enough Inwardly.

Think It A Vile Habit To Alter Works Of Good Composers, To Omit Parts Of Them, Or To Insert New-fashioned Ornaments. This Is The Greatest Insult You Can Offer To Art.

I Am So Fresh In Soul And Spirit That Life Gushes And Bubbles Around Me In A Thousand Springs.

Music Owes As Much To Bach As Religion To Its Founder.