Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Silence is very important. The silence between the notes are as important as the notes themselves.

Creativity is the firing of my soul.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

I should like to know for what reason idleness is so popular with many young people that it is impossible to dissuade them from it either by words or by chastisements.

I love it when an aria fits a singer as perfectly as a suit of well-tailored clothes.

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