"I am not satisfied with my work; I always want to do better."

"I have no friend. I must live alone. I know that I am closer to God than other artists; I commune with Him in my art."

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

"How great was the humiliation when one who stood beside me heard the distant sound of a shepherd's pipe, and I heard nothing; or heard the shepherd singing, and I heard nothing. Such experiences broug…"

"I have never been able to endure society."