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To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice.
She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.
Write to me and don't be so lazy. Otherwise I shall have to give you a thrashing. What fun! I'll break your head.
An astonishing number of kisses are flying about! I see a whole crowd of them. Ha! Ha! I have just caught three - They are delicious... I kiss you millions of times.
Music is my life and my life is music.
Patience and tranquility of mind contribute more to cure _x000D_ our distempers as the whole art of medicine
Melody is the essence of music.
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt.
The best way to learn is through the powerful force of rhythm.
Creativity is the firing of my soul.
To my eyes and ears the organ will ever be the King of Instruments.
Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.
I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician.
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
My fatherland has always the first claim on me.
The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.
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