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

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

Only art and science make us suspect the existence of life to a higher level, and maybe also instill hope thereof.

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

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

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.