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

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

"Ah it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence."

"My compositions are not easily understood by the public."

"Oh you people who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem so to you. From childhood on, my heart …"