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.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.