Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.
Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
I don't go to concerts much. I've heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I've read everything.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.