Thus far and no farther.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this...

I shall seize fate by the throat.

Plaudite, amici, comedia finita est.(Applaud, my friends, the comedy is over.)[Said on his deathbed]

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over…[on his death bed]

Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy

Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.

I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

I like your opera – I think I will set it to music

[When asked why are numbers beautiful?]It’s like asking why is Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony beautiful. If you don’t see why, someone can’t tell you. I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren’t beautiful, nothing...

Whoever tells a lie is not pure of heart, and such a person can not cook a clean soup.