Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.
The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.
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.
How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.
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.
Live, it's just the free flow and the energy and the excitement. It's a one-off and you have that adrenaline for an hour and a half.
I always wear something slightly masculine.
Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.
The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.