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

My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

Only when the form grows clear to you, will the spirit become so too.

We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

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.

Remember, there are more people in the world than yourself. Be modest! You have not yet invented nor thought anything which others have not thought or invented before. And should you really have done so, consider it a gift of heaven which you are to share with others.

Music induces nightingales to sing, pug dogs to yelp.