Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

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.

Youth is to venture

the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it

If you would be Pope you must think of nothing else.

I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

You really can't spend money on social media unless you really try. Social media is really more about effort than expense.

I think every [fighting] style has the same core. It's all about changing and positioning, transitions.

A kid grows up a lot faster on the golf course. Golf teaches you how to behave.

Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.

Art has the lovely habit of ruining all artistic theories.