If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Why, after all, must everyone like music? That they are missing something is just the lover's opinion.

An artist doesn't necessarily have deeper feelings than other people, but he can express these feelings. He is like everyone else-only more so! He speaks with a Formal Sigh.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.