I have never written a note I didn't mean..

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..

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest..

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old..

I eat only white foods: eggs, sugar, grated bones, the fat of dead animals; veal, salt, coconut, chicken cooked in white water; fruit mold, rice, tur….

Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musical….

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut..

Experience is a form of paralysis..

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart..

We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school….

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself..

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so..

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux.

My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera..

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 took to my room and let small things evolve slowly..

I liked the bit about quarter to eleven..