To be popular one must be a mediocrity. " "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all. " "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.
It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.