I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.