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

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

It is already a great thing if the main ideas and general outline of a work come without any racking of brains, as the result of that supernatural and inexplicable force we call inspiration.

Sometimes I observe with curiosity that uninterrupted activity which, independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on, continues its course in that department of my brain that is devoted to music.

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

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

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.