"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."

"I have been so busy that I have not had time to be ill."

"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."

"I am not afraid of death, for I know that I will live on in my music."

"If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German; — and to the shame of th…"