The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

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

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

You know that I immerse myself in music, so to speak- that I think about it all day long- that I like experimenting- studying- reflecting.

To every good friend I send my greet feet; addio nitwit. Love true true true until the grave, if I live that long and do behave.

It is when I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer.....that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence and how they come, I know not, nor can I force them.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.