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.

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

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

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.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.