Antonín Dvořák

“Mozart is sweet sunshine.”

“My new Symphony is to be heroic, national, and patriotic.”

“In the Negro melodies of America I discover all that is needed for a great and noble school of music.”

“Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.”

“The main thing is to have a new and good idea.”

“I am studying with the birds, flowers, God and myself.”

“I am now in spirit in Vyšoká, and I see and hear nothing but our beautiful Czech countryside. May God grant that I will be able to express what I feel.”

“It seems to me that the poets are not sufficiently interested in the music of their works.”

“The Americans expect great things of me, and the main thing is, so they say, to show them a way into the promised land and kingdom of art which they are to create for themselves.”

“I am content with what I have and what I am, and I am a rich man.”