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.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
Music is a kind of harmonious language.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.