Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

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

Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.

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

When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.

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

I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done.

O Mozart, immortal Mozart, how many, how infinitely many inspiring suggestions of a finer, better life you have left in our souls!

There is no such thing as happy music.

April Fools' is the only day to take people seriously.

You have to decide what you want in life and pursue what you want with all your heart.

I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden.

I am very sensitive to the smells and sensations that are part of perfumes because they remind me of things: moments from the past, people, events.

If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.

It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.

Are your thoughts worthy of you? If not - now is the time to change them. You can begin right were you are right now. Nothing matters but this moment and what you are focusing your attention on.

At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.

We only wanted to pay significant sums to keep truly special players.