Love demands all, and has a right to all.

Even in poverty I lived like a king for I tell you that nobility is the thing that makes a king

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

It is my belief one should not belittle the artist; while, however glorious his fame may seem, his time on Mount Olympus as an honourable guest of Zeus is short. It's a pity, but all too eager will the common folk drag him from this etherial heights to the low and trodden earth.

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

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

He that divines the secret of my music is freed from the unhappiness that haunts the whole world of men.