I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

We should have a music of our own - if possible, without any Sauerkraut.

It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Ambition is enthusiasm with a purpose.

The world won't be loyal and burden itself to those who are having one skill and talent any longer. Make yourself useful and indispensable...

Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.

A disciple is a person who has decided that the most important thing in their life is to learn how to do what Jesus said to do.

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.

There are rules you follow here not because you want to, but because you have to.

What tends to happen in most movies is that strip clubs are used as a short hand for unsympathetic, sleazy people. And that's just a lazy cliché.