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.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

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

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics" ... The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.