Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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

All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

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

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