Music Was Not Invented By The Composer,

It Is Nothing To Succeed If One Has Not Taken Great Trouble, And It Is Nothing To Fail If One Has Done The Best One Could.

Without A Strong Cup To Carry The Emotion, It Is Only A Curiosity. Great Art Can Come To Us Only In Strong Cups. Without Emotion, There Is Nothing To Carry.

In Music Everything Is Prolonged, Everything Is Edified, And When The Enchantment Has Ceased, We Are Still Bathed In Its Clarity; Solitude Is Accompanied By A New Hope Between Pity For Ourselves - Which Makes Us More Indulgent And More Understanding - And The Certitude Of Finding Something Again, That Which Lives For Ever In Music.

Art Is Not Emotion. Art Is The Medium In Which Emotion Is Expressed.

It Is Easier To Analyze A Work In Its Form, In Its Evolution, Than Simply To Love It With All The Living Forces Of Our Heart. It Is Easier To Define Its Peculiarities And Its Details Than To Draw Out Of It Its Emotion, Its Thought.