In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

Let your mind alone, and see what happens.

Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing.

The description and explanation is the best part of music reviewing. There is such a thing, and you know it too, as a gift for judgment. If you have it, you can say anything you like. If you haven't got it, you don't know you haven't got it.

Musicians own music because music owns them.

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.