Music Quotes

It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully hard to get rid of the superfluous notes.

I have come into the world for no other purpose than to compose.

To copy the truth is a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

Music is the space between the notes.

Imagination creates the image, and the image creates the deed.

The piano is my second self.

I am a Russian, and I am proud of it.

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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