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• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for…
• The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
• Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
• This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.
• A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.
• Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
• Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
• Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
• I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
• What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a…

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