Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.
There is no greater pleasure for me than to practice and exhibit my art.
After Rossini dies, who will be there to promote his music?
Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.
I know of no more sacred duty than to rear and educate a child.
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.