Answer them [critics] with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. |
Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind. |
Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. |
Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour. |
One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time |
One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing, and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time. |
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour. |
Wagner is a composer who has beautiful moments but awful quarter hours |