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

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

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

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Art means to dare - and to have been right.

In music the present is extended.