Bach is Bach just as God is God.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

Being grateful does not mean that everything is necessarily good. It just means that you can accept it as a gift.

It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.

We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!

The bigger the canvas, the better I do. I'm not so good at understated, kitchen-sink kinds of parts.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

One can live without candy, but one cannot live without bullets.

The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.

I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time.