hum

I have wept three times in my life. Once, when my first opera failed. Once again, the first time I heard Paganini play the violin. And once, when a truffled turkey fell overboard at a boating picnic.

Rossini

Step out of
your mind, watch
yourself from afar
very far … Can
you see? The
universe is always
right, there can
be no wrong

Everything is perfect

Over time, his hearing loss became profound: there is a well-attested story that, at the end of the premiere of his Ninth Symphony, he had to be turned around to see the tumultuous applause of the audience; hearing nothing, he wept.

Beethoven