"I shall remain a bachelor all my life, as I have found no one who understands me."

"My mind is so full of music that I could easily compose a new opera every day."

"I would, perhaps, rather come to you and your people, than to many rich folk who display inward poverty."

"No man can be a composer who has not heard all the works of the great masters."

"Damn your eyes! You are an ass!"