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

That first concept is alway the most naturally and best. The mind errs, the emotion never.

Music owes as much to Bach as religion to its founder.

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Let your intimate friends be chosen from such as are better informed than yourself.

We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart.

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