One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.