My dream is to be played everywhere, not only at the Opera.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Je suis venu au monde tres jeune dans un temps tres vieux

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

When I was young, people used to say to me: Wait until you're fifty, you'll see. I am fifty. I haven't seen anything.

Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are.

I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.

Lay down an unforgiving spirit, because there'll be no peace until you do.

In order to succeed greatly without limitations, you must perceive life as a journey of endless possibilities and opportunities.

You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you.

Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

I just think if you're 44 years old and you're not smarter than you were when you were 35 years old or 25 years old, just stay in your room.

We need to do whatever it takes to get our children together and pay attention to them, because that's our future. What's in the hearts and minds of our children is what's in our future.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

It is not helpful to have those kind of comments come out when we've got troops in combat.