Music is like making love: either all or nothing.

Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.

Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't.

Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

When you believe in something, you can move mountains.

It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

A man possesses talent; genius possesses the man.

A conductor has to know how to translate music into a communicative force that makes the listener want to hear what he has to say.

New York is the dirtiest, largest, ugliest, broken-down city in the world-but it's the only one.

And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.

Ink is the great cure for all human ills.

Good anecdote--bad reality.

You can be childlike without being childish.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

I was admonished ot adopt feminine clothes; I refused, and still refuse. As for other avocations of women, there are plenty of other women to perform them.

Up to a point you welcome being interrupted because it is only by interacting with other people that you get anything interesting done.

We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.