The Essence Of Beauty Is Unity In

Pray To God That He Might Create Is Us A Clean Heart And Renew A Right Spirit Within Us.

People Usually Complain That Music Is So Ambiguous, And What They Are Supposed To Think When They Hear It Is So Unclear, While Words Are Understood By Everyone. But For Me It Is Exactly The Opposite...what The Music I Love Expresses To Me Are Thoughts Not To Indefinite For Words, But Rather Too Definite.

And Do You Agree With Me, That The First Condition Of An Artist Should Be To Bear Respect Toward What Is Great, And To Bow To It And Acknowledge It And Not Attempt To Extinguish Great Flames For The Sake Of Making His Own Rushlight Burn More Brightly?

Ever Since I Began To Compose, I Have Remained True To My Starting Principle: Not To Write A Page Because No Matter What Public, Or What Pretty Girl Wanted It To Be Thus Or Thus; But To Write Solely As I Myself Thought Best, And As It Gave Me Pleasure.

Such A Divine Profession Is Art! When Everything Else Looks So Stale And Disgustingly Vacuous, So Enthralls Even The Littlest Real Effort Of Art Our Innermost And Carries Us From Town, From Country, From Earth, As That It Must Be Truely A Blessing Of The Gods.