I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

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.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

I don't think anyone would argue with the notion that there have been serious abuses on Wall Street.

All wars, whether just or unjust, disastrous or victorious, are waged against the child.

I love the work I do.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Nobody's easier to fool, than the person who is convinced that he is right.

I've never had to work out of the arts. I've always either been a writer or an editor, or something where I've made my living from doing what I love. You can't get any better than that.

(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.