The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

We live in this universe not with the power of our body, but with the power of our will and spirit.

The secret of joy is to give love without seeking it.

Hope wins over experience every time.

Look at this lot - how we all threw ourselves into a fight just for him. We're not soldiers. But we know that what we do when we're with him matters.

‪#‎PRAISE‬ ‪#‎CRITICISM‬ ‪#‎NEUTRAL‬If you live off people's compliments..you will soon die of their criticism..

You want to hate somebody, if you can, just to keep your powers of discrimination bright, and to save yourself from becoming a mere mush of good-nature.

Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

I still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line.