Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.