I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

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

A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.

I am never happier than when I have something to compose, for that, after all, is my sole delight and passion

The wonders of the music of the future will be of a higher & wider scale and will introduce many sounds that the human ear is now incapable of hearing. Among these new sounds will be the glorious music of angelic chorales. As men hear these they will cease to consider Angels as figments of their imagination.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

I write [music] as a sow piddles.