From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Nothing can come of nothingness, the granthi had said. So to know joy, compassion, sympathy - to feel love - means also to have in the world their opposites.

There's something scary, knowing that in Florida, someone can pick you up in a car and drive you to 50 states. Back home, it's like, 'Girl, you're 15 minutes away.'

How do we create a harmonious society out of so many kinds of people? The key is tolerance -- the one value that is indispensable in creating community.

I think everybody's contemplating TV now, because mid-level and high-budget independent films are not being made now.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.

My job is always going to change; the characters that I'm playing are always going to change. I look forward to playing a grandfather at some point.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

For me, Bach is like Shakespeare. He has known all and felt all. He is everything.

Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities that they think are assets.