Artists are fiery; they do not weep.

When I open my eyes I must sigh, for what I see is contrary to my religion, and I must despise the world which does not know that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.