"My dreams are full of music, and I often wake up with melodies in my head."

"My whole life has been a struggle against the stupidity of the world."

"I despise the common herd; they are incapable of understanding my genius."

"I have no joy in anything but music, and that is a torment to me."

"The Jew, who, as we know, has a God all to himself, we need not discuss further here. He is a parasite, a germ, a pestilence, an ulcer, a gangrene; he is incapable of any true art. He has only money."