Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.
O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
All things may be bought in Rome with money.
When an instrument fails on stage it mocks you and must be destroyed!
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.