"Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not."

"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."

"She will never learn the most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time, because from childhood she has designedly cultivated the habit of ignoring the beat."

"What's even worse than a flute? - Two flutes!"

"I am a man of the world, and I know how to behave."