False Notes Can Be Forgiven, False Music

A Great Work Is Made Out Of A Combination Of Obedience And Liberty.

The History Of Harmony Is The History Of The Development Of The Human Ear, Which Has Gradually Assimilated, In Their Natural Order, The Successive Intervals Of The Harmonic Series.

Nothing Is Better Than Music; When It Takes Us Out Of Time, It Has Done More For Us Than We Have The Right To Hope For: It Has Broadened The Limits Of Our Sorrowful Life, It Has Lit Up The Sweetness Of Our Hours Of Happiness By Effacing The Pettinesses That Diminish Us, Bringing Us Back Pure And New To What Was, What Will Be, What Music Has Created For Us.

Words Created Divergencies Between Beings, Because Their Precise Meanings Put An Opinion Around The Idea. Music Only Retains The Highest And Purest Substance Of The Idea, Since It Has The Privilege Of Expressing All, Whilst Excluding Nothing.

It Is Nothing To Succeed If One Has Not Taken Great Trouble, And It Is Nothing To Fail If One Has Done The Best One Could.