There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

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

In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.