Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.