Beethoven I Take Twice A Week, Haydn

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

Every Kind Of Music Is Good, Except The Boring Kind.

Nothing Primes Inspiration More Than Necessity.

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

How Wonderful Opera Would Be If There Were No Singers.