An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Everything you do is music, and everywhere is the best seat.

The act of listening is in fact an act of composing.

The world is no longer a romantic place; some of its people still are however, and therein lies the promise. Don't let the world win.

It is not irritating to be where one is. It is only irritating to think one would like to be somewhere else.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

Good music can act as a guide to good living.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

We have to be open to love to feel happiness and joy.

Pessimism never won any battle.

When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!

The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

Today I do affirm that I am Divinely guided...There is that within which knows what to do and how to do it, and it compels me to act on what it knows.

We all feel disabled in some way. We all feel imperfect. It's hard to be looked at for various reasons.

Maybe if you're playing in London or America, you don't feel that pressure quite as much.

Our job is to execute.

Artists are the emotional historians of the world.

I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are.