Life without music is meaningless, music without life is academic.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Far greater than all the material possessions that I possess, is my Freedom to Choose, my Freedom to Live, and my Freedom to be Happy.- RVM

Life is loves shrine.

I don’t want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.

When asked what profession they like least, most people will give the obvious answer: clowns.

I will be brave, thought Coraline. No, I am brave.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.

Poetry is an act of peace.

Make no mistake, you would prefer to work for someone who is going to put their arm around you at times and lift you.

When photography was invented, people had to make room in their minds for the idea that the dead would always be visible.