Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

Do not humiliate people, shame is a lifetime lasting effect that can be nursed but can never be cured.

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.

Not one of our mortal gauges is suitable for evaluating non-existence, for making judgments about that which is not a person.

I would like to go on that path of evolving into a better actor.

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

I slept little, read a lot, and fell in love frequently.

If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

All the ups and downs are grace in different wrappings, sent to refine consciousness. Say thanks to them all.