Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

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’ve matured. I have a much higher tolerance for boredom.

To forgive is to set someone free.

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.

Imitation always stinks. When I take photos, I don't go back. I don't look at the past. I'm always original.

On ships they call them barnacles; in business they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents.

I remember when I was 33 or 34, it was devastating because I realized I wasn't a kid anymore. The great thing about 40 was that I really felt like I had life experience and knew what I was doing now.

As Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is a tragedy of Greek proportions.

If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?

Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.