I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.