I never can resist a touch of the dramatic.
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.
For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.