I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.

To perform you need practice, to practice you need passion.

You need to understand that some comedy can have consequences.

Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

It's important to stand up for what you believe in.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

Gangs are a group reaction to helplessness.

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.