"My mind is so full of music that I could write all day and all night. But I cannot write it down fast enough."

"I despise the world because it does not understand that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."

"I am not accustomed to being contradicted."

"Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend."

"The only way to make a joke is to be serious."