
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
Attributed to Beethoven by Bettina von Arnim in a letter to Goethe (28 May 1810); Goethe's Correspondence with a Child http://books.google.pt/books?id=UC8HAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA210&dq=%22+music+is+indeed+the+mediator+between+%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=sF40VL3AIILwaIThgNgL&ved=0CEgQ6AEwBjgK#v=onepage&q=%22%20music%20is%20indeed%20the%20mediator%20between%20%22&f=false (1837)
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“Music is not material. Music is Spiritual.”
"The Neglected Plane of Wisdom" (1966), p. 250
Sun Ra : The Immeasurable Equation (2005)
“Music is spiritual. The music business is not.”
The Times [London] (6 July 1990)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 348.
OffBeat interview (2005)
Statement on his admiration of the Eastern Orthodox traditions (1982), as quoted in Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984 (1984) by James Bentley, p. 207