I Don't Want To Know Anything About

What Is To Reach The Heart Must Come From Above; If It Does Not Come From Thence, It Will Be Nothing But Notes, Body Without Spirit.

I Have Always Reckoned Myself Among The Greatest Admirers Of Mozart, And Shall Do So Till The Day Of My Death.

The Barriers Are Not Erected Which Can Say To Aspiring Talents And Industry, 'thus Far And No Farther.'

I Haven't A Single Friend; I Must Live Alone. But Well I Know That God Is Nearer To Me Than To The Others Of My Art; I Associate With Him Without Fear, I Have Always Recognized And Understood Him, And I Have No Fear For My Music,-it Can Meet No Evil Fate. Those Who Understand It Must Become Free From All The Miseries That The Others Drag With Them.

I Will Seize Fate By The Throat; It Shall Certainly Never Wholly Overcome Me.