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I Know Of No More Sacred Duty Than To Rear And Educate A Child.

Don't Only Practice Your Art, But Force Your Way Into Its Secrets; Art Deserves That, For It And Knowledge Can Raise Man To The Divine.

I Would Rather Write 10,000 Notes Than A Single Letter Of The Alphabet.

To Play Without Passion Is Inexcusable!

Music Is The Mediator Between The Spiritual And The Sensual Life. Although The Spirit Be Not Master Of That Which It Creates Through Music, Yet It Is Blessed In This Creation, Which, Like Every Creation Of Art, Is Mightier Than The Artist.