Music-making as a means of getting money is hell

Music, being identical with heaven, isn't a thing of momentary thrills, or even hourly ones. It's a condition of eternity.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I’ve learned what ‘classical’ means. It means something that sings and dances through sheer joy of existence.

There is no room in music for the second-rate - it might just as well be the nineteenth-rate.

One of the advantages of being over forty is that one begins to learn the difference between knowing and realising.

Always ask for advice but never take it.

The Heavenly Spheres make music for us, The Holy Twelve dance with us, All things join in the dance! Ye who dance not, know not what we are knowing.

Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.

If that phone ain't ringing, I assume it still ain't you" Randy Travis

Mourn for the living, the dead have got their camphor gardens.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

Basically, my senior year of high school, I was going to look at prospective colleges and I went to visit Northeastern University because one of my friends was going.

Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.

The mere idea of asking a family member if they intentionally stopped sending me an annual bonus makes me feel like breaking out in hives.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

I want to have thoughts of abundance. I want to have thoughts of love, of kindness, of beauty.