Who can do anything after Beethoven?
My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.
What a picture of a better world you have given us, Mozart!
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.
The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.
No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.