After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Contradictions, in any communication, are the first stepping stones of mistrust

After such an introduction I can hardly wait to hear what I'm going to say.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though and is punished as such.

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave.

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.

I've got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

You need new roads to discover new places!

This mind is the doubting mind, and in the doubting mind we can never feel the presence of peace. We can feel the presence of peace only in the loving heart.