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"It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth."
"To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor."
"When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."
"Men are not only together when they are with each other; even the distant and the dead live with us."
"Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works."
"Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music."
"This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean."
"She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?"
"After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?"
"Recommend virtue to your children, that alone - not wealth - can give happiness. It upholds in adversity and the thought of it and my art prevents me from putting an end to my life."
"Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art."
"Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes."
"Oh continue to love me, never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours."
"There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman."