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

To me the highest thing, after God, is my honor.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

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

I know no other sign of superiority than Goodness.

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

Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.