We all make mistakes, but everyone makes different mistakes

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

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

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

There ought to be only one large art warehouse in the world, to which the artist could carry his art-works and from which he could carry away whatever he needed. As it is one must be half a tradesman.

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

From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it plunges into a chaos of diverse emotions. I catch it again, I seize it, I embrace it with delight... I multiply it by modulations, and at last I triumph in the first theme. There is the whole symphony.