“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.”

“The Prince stood beside the timpanist to count his rests for him and see that he came in in the right place. I suppressed all the trumpet passages which were clearly beyond the players' grasp. The solitary trombone was left to his own devices; but as he wisely confined himself to the notes with which he was thoroughly familiar, such as A flat, D and F, and was careful to avoid all others, his success in the role was almost entirely a silent one.”

“...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well spend one's life in a coal mine.”

“Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

“At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.”

“Time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.”

“The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.”

“He was dying all his life.”

“The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its stud”

“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."]”