A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved.

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

There is no beast, no rush of fire, like woman so untamed. She calmly goes her way where even panthers would be shamed.

That one of history’s greatest brains struggled with amo, amas, amat should be consolation to anyone who has ever tried to learn a second language.

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell.

I can't love you as you have been or will be. I can only love you as you are.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

With a houseful of kids you give each other strength.

Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?

Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

I came to the flowers; I slept beneath them; this was my leisure.