I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Talent works, genius creates.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

As if one's capacity for pain had anything to do with life's apportionment of agonies, Mr. Kimmelbrod thought. Such idiocy.

Sock Monsters Pay-It-Forward to offer hospitalized children a chance to smile, if only for a while!

To win the rat race, you have to think and behave like a cat.

Michael...Michael got bitten. And now he's a vampire. But he doesn't remember becoming one, and that's a big problem. So if you see him, don't, you know, hug. He bites. He doesn't mean it, though.

The world has no hold on you. Whatever has a hold on you comes from your mind.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.

Body-con dresses have never been something I've been into.

With the historian it is an article of faith that knowledge of the past is a key to understanding the present.

Poetic success is when you write a poem that makes you excited and bewildered and aglow.