To compose is to remember music that has never been written.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

My heart pounds sickeningly and I turn pale... I often feel as if I were dead... I seem to be losing my mind.

"We liked it" or "I didn't like it" people say. As if it were nothing higher than to please the people!

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.