Music is my life and my life is music.

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.

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

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.

Directly after God in heaven comes a Papa.

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

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.