"Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn."
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"Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life."
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"I shall hear in heaven."
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"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet."
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"Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable."
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"In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach God more than other people and from that to extend His glory among humanity.I will place all my confidence in your eternal goodness, O God! My soul shall rejoice in Thee, immutable Being. Be my rock, my light, forever my trust."
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"I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth."
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"I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child."
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"Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best."
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"Good Morning, on July 7 My thoughts go out to you, my Immortal Beloved I can only live wholly with you or not at all- Be calm my life, my all. Only by calm consideration of our existence can we achieve our purpose to live together. Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever Thine Ever Mine Ever Yours"
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"Art always demands of us something new."
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"The guitar is an orchestra in itself."
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"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. Although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist."
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"The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts."
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"It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce"
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"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."
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"But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back."
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"He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men."
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"There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!"
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"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."
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