"I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings."
Composer
"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone, and of good cheer... it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly."
"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop."
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