1. ‘I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame, I simply follow my own feelings’ – W.A Mozart

2. ‘Art and life are not two separate things’ – Felix Mendelssohn

3. ‘Without craftmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind’ – Johannes Brahms

4. ‘Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man’s faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements’ – Giacomo Puccini

5. ‘If we understood the world, we would realise that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances’ – Jean Sibelius

6. ‘No particular culture seems to have a copyright on profound ideas about the world’ – Philip Glass

7. ‘Music is life and, like it, inextinguishable’ – Carl Nielsen

8. ‘My music is my portrait’ – Francis Poulenc

8. ‘I do not perform any miracles. I am merely exact.’ – Bohuslav Martinu

9. ‘The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul’ – Johann Sebastian Bach

10. ‘Inspiration is a guest that does not willingly visit the lazy’ – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky