Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

The amount of money one needs is terrifying.

Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Godhead more nearly than other mortals, and by means of that contact to spread the rays of the Godhead through the human race.

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

I want to seize fate by the throat.

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.