Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

A feeble mind, conscious of its own feebleness, grows feeble under that very consciousness. As soon as the power of fear becomes known to it, there follows the fear of fear, and, on the first perturbation, reason abandons it.

It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent and restless as ours to meet and to be matched together, that I hardly know how to tell you what happiness it gives me to know you.

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

If men of genius only knew what love their works inspire!

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.