The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

She's only pretty in that she has two small black eyes and a good figure.

The taste of death is upon my lips. I feel something that is not of this earth.

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.

To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.