"I wish I had a hundred hands to write down all the music I hear."

"Constanze is not ugly, but anything but beautiful; all her beauty consists of two little black eyes and a handsome figure."

"When I am traveling, I cannot look at the sky or the trees or anything that is beautiful, for I am thinking of nothing but my music."

"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 a simple man, and I love simple things."