What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself, -- it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a ….

The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather stri….

Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, ….

The art of music, rather more daughter than imitator of nature, in her impressive and mysterious language minding and educating us, rouses directly o….

Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and n….

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world..