Mozart is the musical Christ.

I have put my whole soul into this work [The Pathetique Symphony] . . . You cannot imagine what joy I feel at the thought that my days are not yet over and that I may still accomplish much.

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

Even in the works of the greatest master, the organic sequence can fail and then a skillful join must be made.

Madam, you ask me how I compose. I compose sitting down.

I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous.

The muse doesn't come without being called.