Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.

To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

What it comes down to is intense desire. To get this winning edge, you need to build an indomitable will. This means you must be relentless; you must never give up.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

The trombone is not meant for romance... any instrument that hawks up it's own loogie every ten minutes is not meant for wooin' the ladies.

Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

Yes, I shot my wife because I thought she was Bigfoot, but I'm from New Jersey.

Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles and values and in no other way.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.