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.

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.

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

The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.