"I hope that I shall live to be a hundred years old, and then I shall have time to write all the music that I have in my head."

"I am not a man who can be easily deceived."

"It is a great error to suppose that my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a celebrated master in mu…"

"I laugh at the world, for it does not understand me."

"A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigta…"