Applaud my friends, the comedy is over... [on his death bed]

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

She was such a good loving mother, my best friend. Oh, who was happier than I when I could still say the dear name "Mother," and it was heard, and whom can I say it to now?

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.

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