Nothing Primes Inspiration More Than Necessity.

Eating, Loving, Singing, And Digesting Are, In Truth, The Four Acts Of The Comic Opera Known As Life, And They Pass Like Bubbles Of A Bottle Of Champagne. Whoever Lets Them Break Without Having Enjoyed Them Is A Complete Fool.

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

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

Music Is A Kind Of Harmonious Language.

Wagner Has Lovely Moments But Awful Quarters Of An Hour.