Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

The language of music is common to all generations and nations; it is understood by everybody, since it is understood with the heart.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day.

Music is a kind of harmonious language.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is the only musician who had as much knowledge asgenius, and as much genius as knowledge.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity, whether it be the presence of a copyist waiting for your work or the prodding of an impresario tearing his hair.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

I want to hurt, so I can heal.I'm not unhappy.I'm just busy.I'm interested.And that's okay.

Negativity only breeds more negativity. I wish to not allow it to enter my heart and not for it to take harbour. It may make itself a home and never leave.

Sometimes you have a little problem and you dont fix it and then all of a sudden it aint a littleproblem anymore.

Sometimes losing is winning

Doubt is not a pleasant state but certainty is a ridiculous one.

It is a principle of law, that a person intends to do that which is the natural effect of what he does.

First one works alone through the mind, then before the public through experience.

I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.

We must create the Georgia that our ancestors dreamed of, the Georgia that we dream of.

Life too near paralyses art.