"Ah how could I possibly admit such an infirmity in the one sense which should have been more perfect in me than in others[?]"

"I never write a work continuously, without interruption."

"I despise the man who does not make his own music."

"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."

"I am not satisfied with what I have done; I want to do more."