Händel is the greatest and ablest of all composers; from him I can still learn.

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.

What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

In the sinking sand, where we’ve come to rest, have I had a hand in your loneliness?

I succeed him no one could replace him.

Colour which is the poet's wealth is so expensive that most take to mere outline sketches and become men of science.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

I'd love to have a family one day. Having kids is the meaning of life and I can't wait to be a mom.

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.