"I am a man of my time, and I write the music of my time."

"I am a creature of habit, but I am also a creature of change."

"I am a very curious man. I always want to learn new things."

"One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles."

"Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge."