Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.

The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What delight this is I cannot tell!

Believe me, my sole purpose is to make as much money as possible; for after good health it is the best thing to have.

I never lie down at night without reflecting that, young as I am, I may not live to see another day.

True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.