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.
Hector BerliozTo render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.
Hector BerliozEvery composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz