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

Music is my life and my life is music.

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

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

I am a fool. That is well known.

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.