„Musik ist ein Ozean, aber das Repertoire ist kaum ein See; es ist ein Teich.“

Die Kraft der Vernunft. Deutsch von Paula Cobrace. List Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3548606229. Zitiert in der Rezension "Der Teich liebt das Leben nicht" von Hannes Stein, DIE WELT 16. Oktober 2004 http://www.welt.de/print-welt/article346479/Der_Teich_liebt_das_Leben_nicht.html
Original italienisch: "Perché l'Islam è uno stagno. E uno stagno è una gora d'acqua stagna. Acqua che non defluisce mai, non si muove mai, non si depura mai, non diventa mai acqua che scorre e che scorrendo arriva al mare." - La Forza della Ragione. Rizzoli international, 2004. p. 273.

Wilhelm Tell, I, 1 / Fischerknabe, S. 1
Wilhelm Tell (1804)

"Jenseits der Zeit", Film von Bruno Monsaingeon, arte, 13. Mai 2005
My love to Bach made me become a musician. All what I was interested in, was impressed by him. It is hardly imaginable, that the greatest musician of history, whose work still today attracts us magnetically and who was criterion for the musician art of the last two centuries, did not accomplish any impression, with the musicians and the audience of his time, ...Bach was the greatest nonconformist of the history of music.
He writes tonal, but without excess of colors. He uses an endless palette of shades of grey. ...The piece and the devotion of the last fugue are overwhelming. He modulates never in the conventional sense, but lets the impression of an expanding universe come into being.

Frühling und Herbst des Lü Bu We, S. 188

Götz von Berlichingen, 1. Fassung A IV, Rathaus / Sickingen
Dramen, Götz von Berlichingen (1773)