At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

One should dance while one still can.

Del UsionIf you knew the personHe thinks he isYou'd have to admitHe's one very special guy.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

Man, I hated not being able to figure someone out. And from the slightly uncertain look he gave me as we all went to class, I suspected he felt the same way.

Watching 'The Sound of Music' is like being beaten to death by a Hallmark card.

Practice meditating on the heart chakra. This is only one of them, but it's quite good for the first few years of your meditative practice.

To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

To put a lot of hard work and effort into a project or character and for it to be recognised, how can it not be nice?