It happens very rarely, but when it happens it's worth waiting for, that the instrument becomes part of your body.

The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.

Any old woman can love God better than a doctor of theology can.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

I dislike allegory wherever I smell it.

The true professional makes art when he is not feeling good, if the studio is too cold or too warm or the walls are falling down. We are painters and we paint. If I were a sculptor, I'd sculpt.

The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.

My weakness is pizza, any form of carbohydrate. I like junk carbohydrates, I like cheap greasy cheeseburgers, quality french fries.

I just wanted to tell the story of a bunch of musicians who had never had their story told before. There's no preaching or theorizing.

In the land of ideas, you are always renting.