I alter some things, eliminate and try again until I am satisfied. Then begins the mental working out of this material in its breadth, its narrowness, its height and depth.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

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

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

I shall seize fate by the throat.

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