Certain things in Mozart will and can never be excelled.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.

Liberty is the harmony between the will and the law.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

The Queen Mary was the most civilized and luxurious way one could travel to America in the late 1930s.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.