Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.