Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.

Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.

One needs only to study a certain positioning of the hand in relation to the keys to obtain with ease the most beautiful sounds, to know how to play long notes and short notes and to achieve certain unlimited dexterity. A well formed technique, it seems to me, can control and vary a beautiful sound quality.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.