Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one has not time to write down.
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) French composer
Mémoires, ch. 46, “The Capture of Constantine,” 1837 [tr. Newman (1966)] (1870)
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Berlioz, Hector
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
[Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu’il soit un maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.]
Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) French composer
Letter (Nov 1856)