Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

He'd be better off shoveling snow.

Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.