Handel, to him I bow the knee.

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.

I want you to be happy, " I tell him, my eyes searching his. 'I want you to have a family. I want you to be surronded by people who care about you, " I say. 'You deserve that.

Premature satisfaction with half-success is a dream-killer of ambition, nobody should indulge in it.

Everyone needs someone who can show them what heaven looks like.

Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way.

If it's not good enough for your eyes, why is it good enough for your stomach?

I think there's a certain lyricism in the telling of a scientific story.

That's what courage is you know: being afraid and doing what you have to do anyway.

At first I saw you everywhere. Now only in certain things, at longer intervals.

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a whole war within one frame.