It is so difficult to mix with artists! You must choose business men to talk to, because artists only talk of money.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

I was good at fabricating the truth when necessary to protect someone, even myself.

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

A moment was not a single moment at all, but rather an infinite number of different moments, depending on who was seeing things and how.

I call children "our ultimate investment."

You sort of can't talk about the post production unless you talk about what comes first.

In today's society, the forces against you are heavy against you. The whole goal is to get knowledge of yourself, but people are so far from themselves that they don't believe themselves.

As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment.