Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Talent works, genius creates.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

more money than the crooks at Enron and less taste than a drunk after a bottle of tequila

Heav'n first taught letters for some wretch's aid, Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

I think most actors like to be liked.

In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.

I think the election of Trump was an expression of what happens in ruling powers as they become alarmed.

I'm pretty confident.

Stephen Hawking implies that we are living in a Godless Universe or a Kingless Kingdom! In that case, Mankind must ascend the throne.

If a person wants to be atheistic it's his God-given right to be an atheist.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

You can get away with saying much more with humor than you can with a straight face.