Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

- Hector Berlioz

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

- Hector Berlioz

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

- Hector Berlioz

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

- Hector Berlioz

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

- Hector Berlioz