Is not beauty in music too often confused with something which lets the ears lie back in an easy chair?

It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.

For the man of talent affects to call his transgressions of the laws of sense trivial and to count them nothing considerd with his devotion to his art.

Please don't try to make things nice! All the wrong notes are right. Just copy as I have -- I want it that way.

Every great inspiration is but an experiment - though every experiment we know, is not a great inspiration.

If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?

If a poet knows more about a horse than he does about heaven, he might better stick to the horse, and some day the horse may carry him into heaven.