Music is either good or it isn’t, it’s not someone’s opinion.

If you want to please the critics, don't play too loud, too soft, too fast, too slow.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

To Strauss the composer I take off my hat; to Strauss the man I put it back on again.

I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since.

After I die, I shall return to earth as a gatekeeper of a bordello and I won't let any of you enter.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I hate you all because you destroy my dreams!

When I was very young I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

God tells me how he wants the music played - and you get in his way.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

Life may be a bed of roses, but roses still have thorns.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

On the Earth, you admire the Moon; on the Moon, you admire the Earth!

I really do feel now that the way I dress onstage and for work is a true reflection of my own sense of style as well.

We must rapidly wean ourselves off our dependence on coal and fossil fuels.

Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you... This turning toward what you deeply love saves you.

It's not enough to be in the majority, you have to stand for something.