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

Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy.

A self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood.

The muse doesn't come without being called.

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

What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.

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