Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.

I feel myself inhabited by a force or being -- very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.