[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That

[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That Was Mistaken For A Dawn.

I Have A Horror Of Sentimentality, And I Cannot Forget That Its Name Is Saint-saëns.

The Attraction Of The Virtuoso For The Public Is Very Like That Of The Circus For The Crowd. There Is Always The Hope That Something Dangerous May Happen.

Music Begins Where Words Are Powerless To Express. Music Is Made For The Inexpressible. I Want Music To Seem To Rise From The Shadows And Indeed Sometimes To Return To Them.

If We Look At The Works Of Js Bach ... On Each Page We Discover Things Which We Thought Were Born Only Yesterday, From Delightful Arabesques To An Overflowing Of Religious Feeling Greater Than Anything We Have Since Discovered.