Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.