"I like to be alone and to think."

"What annoys me most is that these stupid Frenchmen think I am still just seven years old - because that was my age when they first saw me - (...) they treat me here like a beginner - except the musici…"

"The only thing—I tell you this straight from the heart—that disgusts me in Salzburg is that one can't have any proper social intercourse with those people—and that music does not have a better reputat…"

"I am not afraid of death, for I know that I will live on in my music."

"I only wish to serve my art."