Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

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.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.