Does it not seem as if Mozart's works become fresher and fresher the oftener we hear them?

People compose for many reasons, to become immortal; because the piano happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; or for no reason whatsoever.

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

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

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

Confidence and courage are special skills to the art ... Within the four walls of his study, the artist should be modest, work diligently and conscientiously. While for the public, he'll show himself audacious, yes even into cheerful boldness. And so a new public's darling has arisen.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.