"Ah it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had produced all that I felt called upon me to produce, and so I endured this wretched existence."

"A musician is a musician because he lives the music. Not just plays it. But lives it. And if he doesn't live it, he is nothing."

"No man can be a composer who has not heard all the works of the great masters."

"I had to become a composer, because I had nothing else to do."

"I must confess that I am a little deaf."