I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

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

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

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

This is not a brook [Bach means "brook" in German], it's an ocean.

Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.