The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous may happen.
Life is the space between our things.
The age of automobiles and aeroplanes cannot express itself in the same manner as did the age of the diligence.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
There is no theory. You merely have to listen. Pleasure is the law.
I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.