1. “Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.”
2. “The earth is suffocating… Swear to make them cut open, so that I won’t be buried alive.”
3. “To be a great composer requires immense experience… One acquires this by listening not only the other men’s work, but above all to one’s own!”
4. “Nothig is more beautiful than the sound of the guitar.”
5. “Simplicity is the final achievement.”
6. “Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.”
7. “England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.”
8. “I’m a revolutionary, money means nothing to me.”
9. “I shall create a new world for myself.”
10. “Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.”
11. “Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.”
12. “A long time ago I decided that my universe will be the soul and heart of man.”
13. “Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.”
14. “Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one’s birthplace.”
15. “Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”
