A minute's success pays the failure of years.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.