There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

Music is the electric soil in which the spirit thinks, lives and invents. All that's electrical stimulates the mind to flowing surging musical creation. I am electrical by nature.

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

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