Life Without Music Is Unthinkable.

Success Is All Very Well As Long As You Don't Inhale.

...we Can All Shut-up And Go Back To Our Caves.

I'm Not Interested In Having An Orchestra Sound Like Itself. I Want It To Sound Like The Composer.

From New Year's On The Outlook Brightens; Good Humor Lost In A Mood Of Failure Returns. I Resolve To Stop Complaining.

The Rhapsody Is Not A Composition At All. It's A String Of Separate Paragraphs Stuck Together - With A Thin Paste Of Flour And Water... I Don't Think There Has Been Such An Inspired Melodist On This Earth Since Tchaikovsky... But If You Want To Speak Of A Composer, That's Another Matter.