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.

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.