“That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. ”

“When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.”

“I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.”

“An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera ho...”

“When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.”

“Some say I have a beautiful voice, some say I have not. It is a matter of opinion. All I can say, those who don't like it shouldn't come to hear me.”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“How do you hate someone who pulled you from the brink of death, not once, but twice?”

“Ironically, the first time he played it, he experienced his first dream vision with his own flame jumelle, Rune and saved her from drowning. Thereafter he decided that must be the magic the instru...”

“This cant be a coincidence, and theres no longer any doubt in my mind. I am in a horror story.”