Nothing Primes Inspiration More Than Necessity.

Music Is A Kind Of Harmonious Language.

Beethoven I Take Twice A Week, Haydn Four Times, And Mozart Every Day.

Answer Them Critics With Silence And Indifference. It Works Better, I Assure You, Than Anger And Argument. . . .

Wagner Has Lovely Moments But Awful Quarters Of An Hour.

How Wonderful Opera Would Be If There Were No Singers.