Music is my life and my life is music.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

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

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

God first, then papa.

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.

Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.