The audience is requested not to refrain from talking during the overture. Otherwise they will know all the tunes before the opera begins.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

Time is not tinder for any flame. It will not gather a spark

When mom died, my old roommate, Jimmy, said that in an alternate dimension, an alternate me might have a worse life.”“Now that's comforting, ” said Murphy.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!

All art is infested by other art.

The Bell never rings of itself; unless some one handles or moves it it is dumb. [Lat., Nunquam aedepol temere tinniit tintinnabulum; Nisi quis illud tractat aut movet, mutum est, tacet.]

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

I knew a girl so ugly, she had a face like a saint-a Saint Bernard!

I listen to my daughter. I listen to Paula, but I make the decisions. The decision to say goodbye to Cruise was mine.

So why, after prior successes, did Obama's race/class/gender attack finally sputter out like the French at Waterloo?