If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.