Do Not Take Up Music Unless You

Words Created Divergencies Between Beings, Because Their Precise Meanings Put An Opinion Around The Idea. Music Only Retains The Highest And Purest Substance Of The Idea, Since It Has The Privilege Of Expressing All, Whilst Excluding Nothing.

I've Been A Woman For A Little Over 50 Years And Have Gotten Over My Initial Astonishment. As For Conducting An Orchestra, That's A Job Where I Don't Think Sex Plays Much Part.

Do Not Take Up Music Unless You Would Rather Die Than Not Do So.

The History Of Harmony Is The History Of The Development Of The Human Ear, Which Has Gradually Assimilated, In Their Natural Order, The Successive Intervals Of The Harmonic Series.

Without A Strong Cup To Carry The Emotion, It Is Only A Curiosity. Great Art Can Come To Us Only In Strong Cups. Without Emotion, There Is Nothing To Carry.