Neither A Lofty Degree Of Intelligence Nor

The Whole, Though It Be Long, Stands Almost Complete And Finished In My Mind So That I Can Survey It At A Glance. Nor Do I Hear In My Imagination The Parts Successively, But I Hear Them, As It Were, All At Once. What Delight This Is I Cannot Tell!

If People Could See Into My Heart, I Should Almost Feel Ashamed - All There Is Cold, Cold As Ice.

Silence Is Very Important. The Silence Between The Notes Are As Important As The Notes Themselves.

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

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