I Am Never Happier Than When I

I Am Never Happier Than When I Have Something To Compose, For That, After All, Is My Sole Delight And Passion

The Most Necessary, Most Difficult And Principal Thing In Music, That Is Time.

As Death, When We Come To Consider It Closely, Is The True Goal Of Our Existence . . .

Nevertheless The Passions, Whether Violent Or Not, Should Never Be So Expressed As To Reach The Point Of Disgust.

Neither A Lofty Degree Of Intelligence Nor Imagination Nor Both Together Go To The Making Of Genius. Love, Love, Love, That Is The Soul Of Genius.