I’m going to commune with God and I must be appropriately dressed!

The life’s story of great geniuses is a sad one, without much tangible reward, which does not inspire future generations to face a similar fate. Alas also, it stands to reason why so many talent will not come to sparkle on the artistic firmanent.

I was never a quick writer, but composed with great care and efforts.

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

When I think of my God, my heart dances within me for joy, and then my music has to dance, too.

It is the melody which is the charm of music, and it is that which is most difficult to produce. The invention of a fine melody is a work of genius.

Since God has given me a cheerful heart, He will forgive me for serving Him cheerfully.

Never was I so devout as when I composed The Creation. I knelt down each day to pray to God to give me strength for my work....When I was working on The Creation I felt so impregnated with Divine certainty, that before sitting down to the piano, I would quietly and confidently pray to God to grant me the talent that was needed to praise Him worthily.

When I think upon my God, my heart is full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen.

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.