Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.
A life without once reading Hamlet is like a life spent in a coal mine.
Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood
If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!
Music and love are the wings of the soul.