The secret of living is to find people who will pay you money to do what YOU would pay to do if you had the money.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.

Opera is everything rolled into one - music, theater, the dance, color and voices and theatrical illusions.

Once in a while, when everything is just right, there is a moment of magic. People can live on moments of magic.