The Trombone Is The True Head Of

It Is Not Enough That The Artist Should Be Well Prepared For The Public. The Public Must Be Well Prepared For What It Is Going To Hear.

Time Is A Great Teacher, But Unfortunately It Kills All Its Pupils.

Love Cannot Express The Idea Of Music, While Music May Give An Idea Of Love

A Feeble Mind, Conscious Of Its Own Feebleness, Grows Feeble Under That Very Consciousness. As Soon As The Power Of Fear Becomes Known To It, There Follows The Fear Of Fear, And, On The First Perturbation, Reason Abandons It.

To Render My Works Properly Requires A Combination Of Extreme Precision And Irresistible Verve, A Regulated Vehemence, A Dreamy Tenderness, And An Almost Morbid Melancholy.