I hate singers, a miserable crew who think that music exists only in their own throats. — George Bernard Shaw

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.