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

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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

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 eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, turnips; camphorated sausage, dough, cheese (white), cotton salad, and certain fish (skinless).