A Symphony Is No Joke.

It Is Not Hard To Compose, But What Is Fabulously Hard Is To Leave The Superfluous Notes Under The Table.

In My Study I Can Lay My Hand On The Bible In The Pitch Dark. All Truly Inspired Ideas Come From God. The Powers From Which All Truly Great Composers Like Mozart, Schubert, Bach And Beethoven Drew Their Inspirations Is The Same Power That Enabled Jesus To Do His Miracles.

To Follow In Beethoven's Footsteps Transcends One's Strength.

Those Who Enjoy Their Own Emotionally Bad Health And Who Habitually Fill Their Own Minds With The Rank Poisons Of Suspicion, Jealousy And Hatred, As A Rule Take Umbrage At Those Who Refuse To Do Likewise, And They Find A Perverted Relief In Trying To Denigrate Them.

For The Shallow Delights Of Matrimony And Opera I Have No Courage.