It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

The moment you doubt your truth is the moment you lose your angelic nature. But don’t worry

Your value is in your individuality.

If you'll follow Christ's commands, you'll follow Christ straight to your calling and you'll have developed the strength, grit, and stability along the way to handle it.

Men expect too much do too little.

It was a rather extraordinary conversation if you think about it -- both of us speaking in code. But not military code, not Intelligence or Resistance code -- just feminine code.

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.