How Wonderful Opera Would Be If There

Nothing Primes Inspiration More Than Necessity.

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

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

Beethoven I Take Twice A Week, Haydn Four Times, And Mozart Every Day.

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