Music Must Never Offend The Ear, But

To Win Applause One Must Write Stuff So Simple That A Coachman Might Sing It.

Nor Do I Hear In My Imagination The Parts Successively, But I Hear Them, As It Were, All At Once (gleich Dies Zusammen). What A Delight This Is I Cannot Tell ! All This Inventing, This Producing, Takes Place In A Pleasing Lively Dream.

To Talk Well And Eloquently Is A Very Great Art, But That An Equally Great One Is To Know The Right Moment To Stop.

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

I Love It When An Aria Fits A Singer As Perfectly As A Suit Of Well-tailored Clothes.