The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Stay with me to-night; you must see me die. I have long had the taste of death on my tongue, I smell death, and who will stand by my Constanze, if you do not stay?
I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak – and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes is as important as the notes themselves.
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
When I feel well and in a good humour, or when I am taking a drive or walking after a good meal, or in the night when I cannot sleep, thoughts crowd into my mind as easily as my mind might wish.