Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies zusammen). What a delight this is I cannot tell ! All this inventing, this producing, takes place in a pleasing lively dream.

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

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

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.