Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.

Music possesses much richer means of expression and it is a more subtle medium for translating the 1000 shifting moments of the feelings of the soul.

We must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it halfway, we easily become indirect and apathetic.

The creative process is like music which takes root with extraordinary force and rapidity

Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul's moods.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

I feel I shall live a long time.