Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Music is the space between the notes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune

When we all part from this life and gather on the other side, the only thing each of us will have to share is his own story.

I think there's been a decline in the public's access to what's being done with their tax dollars, what's being done in their name. I hope that that will be repaired.

I done drew the line. Just like the Alamo. You're either on one side of the line or the other. I don't want to ever leave Texas again.

There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback.

Coming from the University of Miami, I developed really good study habits.

A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters.

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best.

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.