My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
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!
Vienna is a handsome, lively city, and pleases me exceedingly.
Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.
Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars.