"I never write anything without having thought it over carefully."

"I am a composer and therefore I do not have to think about anything else."

"I cannot write in a hurry, for I have to think about everything."

"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 hope that I shall live to be a hundred years old, and then I shall have time to write all the music that I have in my head."