Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

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.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.

I carry my thoughts about me for a long time, often a very long time, before I write them down; meanwhile my memory is so faithful that I am sure never to forget, not even in years, a theme that has once occurred to me.

Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.