First of all, ladies and gentlemen, you must forget that you are singers.
Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.
People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Art is the most beautiful deception of all! And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.