There are three degrees of comparison: stupido, stupidissimo, and tenore.

- Pietro Mascagni

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

- Pietro Mascagni

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any oblig…

- Pietro Mascagni

The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.

- Pietro Mascagni