No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.