The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals but he is also the proudest.
Before I compose a piece I walk around it several times accompanied by myself.
Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.
Opera is a musical scenery a musical atmosphere in which the characters move and talk.
I came into the world very young in an age that was very old.
I liked the bit about quarter to eleven.
I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.
I took to my room and let small things evolve slowly.
My dream is to be played everywhere not only at the Opera.
Experience is a form of paralysis.
When I was young people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.
I am by far your superior but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
I have never written a note I didn't mean.
We should have a music of our own - if possible without any Sauerkraut.
Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux