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

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'

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.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

I want to seize fate by the throat.