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

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

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

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.