In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.
Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.
Send light to the dark hearts of men, that is the duty the artist.
Talent works, genius creates.
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art.
I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.