Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
Eating, loving, singing, and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.
Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.
I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.
Most people have no concept of how an automatic transmission works, yet they know how to drive a car. You don't have to study physics to understand the laws of motion to drive a car. You don't have to understand any of this stuff to use Macintosh.
In matters of conscience that is the best sense which every wise man takes in before he hath sullied his understanding with the designs of sophisters and interested persons.