If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.
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.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.