"I hate flatterers and toadies, but I like people who are straightforward and honest."

"I will show the world that I am a great artist."

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

"I live only in my music, and I have scarcely begun a work when I am already thinking of the next."

"My condition has not improved, and I am still suffering from my hearing."