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.

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

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

The foundation of friendship demands the greatest likeness of human souls and hearts.

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?

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.