After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.
Love demands all, and has a right to all.
Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.