I am not thoughtless but am prepared for anything and as a result can wait patiently for whatever the future holds in store, and I'll be able to endure it.

I choose such notes that love one another.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

I am a fool. That is well known.

I too had to work hard, so as not to have to work hard any longer.

You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.