I live in a country where music has very little success, though, exclusive of those who have forsaken us, we have still admirable professors and, more particularly, composers of great solidity, knowledge, and taste.
An unmarried man, in my opinion, enjoys only half a life.
I am one of those who will go on doing till all doings are at an end.
I cannot write poetically, for I am no poet. I cannot make fine artistic phrases that cast light and shadow, for I am no painter. I can neither by signs nor by pantomime express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer; but I can by tones, for I am a musician.
If I were obliged to marry all those with whom I have jested, I should have at least two hundred wives.
My father is maestro at the Metropolitan church, which gives me an opportunity to write for the church as much as I please.
