"They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, …"

"Anton Bruckner’s reputation rests almost entirely with his symphonies – the symphonies, someone said, that Wagner nev…"

"We recoil in horror before this rotting odour which rushes into our nostrils from the disharmonies of this putrefacti…"

"Über Bruckner kann ich gar nicht mehr reden, weil mir jedes Wort fehlt, um zu sagen, für wie groß und erhaben ich die…"

"Daß es Bruckner gegeben hat, ist für mich das größte Geschenk Gottes."

"Die Warheit zu sagen, so höret oder siehet man selten einen Streit swischen ihnen; es trauen die fremdesten Leute ein…"

"Both as an organist and composer he ranks high."

"Music is become a complaisant and versatile handmaiden, and, since the impossible is demanded of her, she calls up al…"

"Dowghter, in this I can thinke no other But that it is true thys proverbe olde, Hastye love is soone hot and soone co…"

"Deep Purple are responsible for an awfully lot of what we would come to know as heavy metal, so it might be surprisin…"