"If people would only know how much I have to do to acquire my art, it would not seem so easy to them."

"A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigta…"

"My greatest joy is to make people happy with my music."

"I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements."

"I am a slave to my work."