Music Is The Arithmetic Of

Inspiration And Ideas Only Come To Me When I Have Not Had A Woman In A Very Long Time... Ballads, Polonaises, Even A Whole Concerto May Have Been Lost Forever Up Your Des Durka, I Can't Tell You How Many. I Have Been So Deeply Engulfed In My Love For You I Have Hardly Created Anything.

The Attraction Of The Virtuoso For The Public Is Very Like That Of The Circus For The Crowd. There Is Always The Hope That Something Dangerous May Happen.

People Come To Music To Seek Oblivion: Is That Not Also A Form Of Deception?

First Of All, Ladies And Gentlemen, You Must Forget That You Are Singers.

[on Richard Wagner] A Beautiful Sunset That Was Mistaken For A Dawn.