Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.
I have never written a note I didn't mean.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
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.
My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.