I prepare myself for rehearsals like I would for marriage.

You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means great teachers foresee a pupil's ends.

When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.

Growth is kinda built into everyone's genes. It's built into management's genes, the salesman's genes, the investors' desires. People expect companies to grow.

Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this.

If the tools are bad, nature's voice is muffled. If the tools are good, nature will give us a clear answer to a clear question.

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.

There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you.

Only dead fish swim with the stream all of the time.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

Now in business we do a cost benefit analysis before we make policy changes. Washington should as well.