Only The Pure In Heart Can Make

Only The Flint Of A Man's Mind Can Strike Fire In Music.

Don't Only Practise Your Art, But Force Your Way Into Its Secrets.

But What A Humiliation For Me When Someone Standing Next To Me Heard A Flute In The Distance And I Heard Nothing, Or Someone Standing Next To Me Heard A Shepherd Singing And Again I Heard Nothing. Such Incidents Drove Me Almost To Despair; A Little More Of That And I Would Have Ended My Life - It Was Only My Art That Held Me Back.

Rossini Would Have Been A Great Composer If His Teacher Had Spanked Him Enough On His Backside.

Nothing Is More Intolerable Than To Have To Admit To Yourself Your Own Errors.