She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.
Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.
A bachelor, in my opinion, is only half alive.
Music is my life and my life is music.
I write [music] as a sow piddles.
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.