The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my art; I associate with Him without fear, I have always recognized and understood Him, and I have no fear for my music,-it can meet no evil fate. Those who understand it must become free from all the miseries that the others drag with them.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.