Answer Them Critics With Silence And Indifference.

Eating, Loving, Singing, And Digesting Are, In Truth, The Four Acts Of The Comic Opera Known As Life, And They Pass Like Bubbles Of A Bottle Of Champagne. Whoever Lets Them Break Without Having Enjoyed Them Is A Complete Fool.

One Can't Judge Wagner's Opera Lohengrin After A First Hearing, And I Certainly Don't Intend To Hear It A Second Time.

If Beethoven Is A Prodigy Of Man, Bach Is A Miracle Of God.

Give Me A Laundry List And I'll Set It To Music.

Answer Them Critics With Silence And Indifference. It Works Better, I Assure You, Than Anger And Argument. . . .