The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
Opera is a musical scenery, a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.
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.
Experience is a form of paralysis.
When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.