“There is no such thing as happy music.”

“Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.”

“I am in the world only for the purpose of composing.”

“No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.”

“My compositions spring from my sorrows. Those that give the world the greatest delight were born of my deepest griefs.”

“Was he an animal that music so captivated him?”

“Music is the heart of life." She speaks love; "without it, there is no possible good and with it everything is beautiful.”