I Will Seize Fate By The Throat;

Music Is The Wine Which Inspires One To New Generative Processes, And I Am Bacchus Who Presses Out This Glorious Wine For Mankind And Makes Them Spiritually Drunken.

Everything Should Be At Once Surprising And Inevitable.

There Is No Greater Pleasure For Me Than To Practice And Exhibit My Art.

There Is No Loftier Mission Than To Approach The Godhead More Nearly Than Other Mortals, And By Means Of That Contact To Spread The Rays Of The Godhead Through The Human Race.

There Are And Always Will Be Thousands Of Princes, But There Is Only One Beethoven!