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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.