Art always demands of us something new.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversible numbness...!

We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own skin.

No one is useless in this world, I might not do the greats you do, endure greatly as you do but at some point we have something in common, we both NEED one another.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

People are more afraid to love than they are to kill.

I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.

All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about.

What matters is how I use what I know, every minute of every day; how I use it to remember, in the midst of the game.

Survival is not important. What matters is how you survive.