Oh, how beautiful it is to be alive - would that I could live a thousand times

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

I have always reckoned myself among the greatest admirers of Mozart, and shall do so till the day of my death.

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.

Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music.

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.