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

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

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.

You ask me where I get my ideas. That I cannot tell you with certainty. They come unsummoned, directly, indirectly - I could seize them with my hands - out in the open air, in the woods, while walking, in the silence of the nights, at dawn, excited by moods which are translated by the poet into words, by me into tones that sound and roar and storm about me till I have set them down in notes.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Let your deafness no longer be a secret - even in art.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.