"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

"I am a slave to no one."

"I beg you most humbly to go on loving me just a little and to make do with these poor congratulations until I get some new drawers made for my small and narrow brainbox in which I can keep the brains …"

"The only thing—I tell you this straight from the heart—that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people—and that music does not have a better reputat…"

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