"I only wish to serve my art."

"It is, of course, a money marriage, nothing more. I wouldn't want to enter into this kind of marriage. I wish to make my wife happy and not make my happiness through her."

"A goodly number of high nobility was present: the Duchess Kickass, the Countess Pisshappy, also the Princess Smellshit with her two daughters, who are married to the two Princes of Mustbelly von Pigta…"

"I laugh at the world, for it does not understand me."

"I write music to express my feelings, not to please the public."