There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I am kept busy. (Franz Schubert)
I am composing like a god, as if it simply had to be done as it has been done. (Franz Schubert)
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. (Franz Schubert)
I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. (Franz Schubert)
Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy. (Franz Schubert)
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art? (Franz Schubert)
The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act. (Franz Schubert)
The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part. (Franz Schubert)
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? (Franz Schubert)
If only your pure and clean mind could touch me, dear Haydn, nobody has a greater reverence for you than I have. (Franz Schubert)
Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me. (Franz Schubert)