If you read reviews of concerts, the word 'creative' comes up all the time. However, performers playing music usually aren't creative. Critics might say they are, but they're just playing another persons work. They didn't create it.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Greatness is not the effect of which inspiration is the cause. We are all inspired, but we are all not great.

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

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

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.