Wagner Has Lovely Moments But Awful Quarters

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

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

One Can't Judge Wagner's Opera Lohengrin After A First Hearing, And I Certainly Don't Intend To Hear It A Second Time.

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

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