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

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.

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

I like the plot of The Nutcracker - not at all.

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

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.

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.