To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without passion is inexcusable.

What I have in my heart and soul must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

-- Born in 1685 in Eisenach

I do not copy nature; I reveal it.

-- Caravaggio

I have two weapons: one is my pen, the other is my baton.

-- Born in Macau in 1905, Xian Xinghai

Music is the silence between the notes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

-- Born in France in 1862, Claude Debussy opened new frontiers of harmony and timbre that reshaped Western music. Works like Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune, La mer, and his Preludes for piano freed French music from German Romantic dominance and profoundly influenced twentieth-century composers. His sole completed opera, Pelleas et Melisande, offered a radical alternative to Wagnerian music drama. Though he rejected the label, he

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

-- Born in Salzburg in 1756