Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

A man does not have to be an angel to be a saint.

Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.

Sing sweet, but put a little dirt in it.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

Reform is like morning glories; they look great early in the day and then they disappear.

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

Of course I have bills to pay, but at the same time, it's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.

A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself.