Always remember your days are blessed. You may know how to profit from them or you may not, but they are blessed.

To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. The story should never be made up of improbable incidents

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can bel How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is I

I think ultimately is, Donald Trump is pragmatic.

I think one of the great things that I have seen happen since the rise of the movement for black lives is the growth of more training and leadership spaces.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

Because one day I'll leave you a phantom to lead you in the summer to join the black parade.

Moralistic is not moral. And as for truth - well, it's like brown - it's not in the spectrum. Truth is so generic.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all.

You must have a supplier relationship of constant improvement.