Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

Recommend to your children to be virtuous, only the virtue can bring us happiness, not the money.

It seemed unthinkable for me to leave the world forever before I had produced all that I felt called upon to produce

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

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