"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."

"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven."

"Only the pure in heart can make a good soup."

"This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble."

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."

"Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience."

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman."

"A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation."

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

"Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes."

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

"Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors."

"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."

"Friends applaud, the comedy is over."

"Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!"

"Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup."

"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life."

"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."