Music should be an integral part of one's life, but how one is able to access it or use it as a career vehicle will always remain in question.

One has to commit their life to music and not expect to get famous or rich doing it.

When I was seven years old, I was leading a quartet and trio, and that really laid the groundwork for me as a musician.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.

We only feel joy when we love our precious life.

There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.

Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered.

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Giving into anger destroys the soul.

Every innovation scraps its immediate predecessor and retrieves still older figures – it causes floods of antiques or nostalgic art forms and stimulates the search for museum pieces.

We are getting used to levels of violence, we are getting used to seeing these horrific things going on all the time. I think it's tough. It's rough.

I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

What the light of your mind, which is the direct inspiration of the Almighty, pronounces incredible, that, in God's name, leave uncredited. At your peril do not try believing that!

The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.