Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.
I shall hear in heaven.
What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.
I want to seize fate by the throat.
The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.