The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but the most difficult to play.
The aria, after all, is the soul of opera.
He'd be better off shoveling snow.
I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.
Its a funny thing Alice, dying is just the way I composed it in Tod und Verklärung.