All men are forced into one of two categories: those with eleven fingers and those without.
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
To start writing about your life is, from one standpoint, to stop living it. You must avoid adventures today so as to make time for registering those of yesterday.
Compose first, worry later.
Quarrels in France strengthen a love affair, in America they end it.
Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.