Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

I can't change yesterday, but I can sure mess up today.

Character is defined by what you do when no one is looking, but the visible can shatter any perfect impression.

Every time you cry, your tears put out my candle.

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

You have to give people something to actually write music so that you're not just running your mouth all the time.

To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.

Nobody cared about the riot until they thought it might spill into their nice neighborhoods. Then they got scared and called the National Guard.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.