Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
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.
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
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.