Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

I can do nothing but think of you... What have you done to me? Can't you remove the spell you have cast over me?

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

I can live only wholly with you or not at all.

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!