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.

In music the present is extended.

Compose first, worry later.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

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

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

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