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

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven!

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.