“ Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes. ”
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
~ Ludwig Van Beethoven
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
The true artist is not proud, he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal; and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun. I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
