"Nothing is more futile than theorizing about music. No doubt there are laws, mathematically strict laws, but these laws are not music; they are only its conditions […] The essence of music is revelation." (Heinrich Heine, "Letters on the French Stage", 1837)
"What then is music? […] It exists between thought and phenomenon, like a twilight medium, it stands between spirit and matter, related to and yet different from both; it is spirit, but spirit governed by time; it is matter, but matter that can manage without space." (Heinrich Heine, "On the French Stage", 1837)
"Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction." (Heinrich Heine)
"Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means." (Heinrich Heine)
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