All my life I have regarded myself as one of Mozart's greatest admirers, and I will remain one until my last breath.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

If I contemplate myself as part of the Universe: what am I?

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

Music is the mediator between the life of the senses and the life of the spirit.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.