I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Art is science made clear.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.