We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

Experience is a form of paralysis.

Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.