The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Intelligence is silence, truth is being invisible. But what a racket I make in declaring this.
Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.
To see itself through, music must have idea or magic. ... Music with neither dies young though rich.