From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.

It is the power of music to carry one directly into the mental state of the composer.

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

But what a humiliation for me when someone standing next to me heard a flute in the distance and I heard nothing, or someone standing next to me heard a shepherd singing and again I heard nothing. Such incidents drove me almost to despair; a little more of that and I would have ended my life - it was only my art that held me back.

My heart is full of many things there are moments when I feel that speech is nothing after all.

This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble.