"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 is life? It is a fleeting joy, a sorrow soon past."

"Sleep is good, and death is better; but of course, to live is the best of all."

"A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigta…"

"My greatest joy is to make people happy with my music."