Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

I am one thing, my writings are another.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart!

Those born once will die twice and those born twice will die once

Smile. Nod. Say something witty before he finds out what an incredible geek you are.

If you can't keep quiet, shut up!

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

I remember that Jackie [Stewart] was the first driver wearing flameproof underwear! What it definitely was: it was much more flamboyant. But that doesn't really make it better in my point of view.

President Obama's view of a free economy is to send your money to his friends. My vision for a free enterprise economy is to return entrepreneurship and genius and creativity to the American people!

When I see I am nothing, that is wisdom. When I see I am everything, that is love. My life is a movement between these two.