"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students." [<i>Letter, November 1856</i>] - Hector Berlioz

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

time is an excellent teacher - unfortunately it kills all its pupils

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

Time is a great teacher, but ufortunately, it kills all its pupils...

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.

Shakespeare, en tombant ainsi sur moi à l'improviste, me foudroya. Son éclair, en m'ouvrant le ciel de l'art avec un fracas sublime, m'en illumina les plus lointaines profondeurs. Je reconnus la vraie grandeur, la vraie beauté, la vraie vérité dramatiques.

Cette face de l’instrumentation est exactement, en musique, ce que le coloris est en peinture.