One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
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.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
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.