It looks wrong, and it sounds wrong, but it's right.

The art of music above all the other arts is the expression of the soul of a nation.

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

There is no reason why an atheist could not write a good Mass.

I suppose it never occurs to these people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Wagner used to read the libretti of his operas to his friends; I am glad I was not there.

To the unmusical hearer a note on the gong means dinner, this perhaps often is menacing enough.

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

be kind, even when others are not, It empowers them to become a better version of themselves.

We -humans - are wizard who turn miracles into technology.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

A man doesn't cry. In my life, I've never cried. I cannot do it. I am a man. How will I cry?

Success comes in cans, not can'ts.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

I don't want to be the Hollywood girl... I'm Southern and old-fashioned.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.