To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
God first, then papa.
I am a fool. That is well known.
Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.
The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.