Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.