I Want To Seize Fate By The

There Are And Always Will Be Thousands Of Princes, But There Is Only One Beethoven!

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.

Music Is A Higher Revelation Than All Wisdom And Philosophy.

I Have Always Reckoned Myself Among The Greatest Admirers Of Mozart, And Shall Do So Till The Day Of My Death.

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.