Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.

The character of instrumental music... lets the emotions radiate and shine in their own character without presuming to display them as real or imaginary representations.

Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.

Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light.