I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

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

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

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

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