"The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves."

"It is a fact that I have always placed my personal freedom before everything else."

"My mind is so full of music that I could write all day and all night. But I cannot write it down fast enough."

"A musician is a magician, who, by the power of his art, can turn a heart of stone into a heart of gold."

"The condition of the people's heart is the measure of the condition of the nation."