No statue has ever been put up to a critic.

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Music begins where the possibilities of language end.

If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances.

All the doctors who wanted to forbid me to smoke and to drink are dead.

Music is, for me, like a beautiful mosaic which God has put together. He takes all the pieces in his hand, throws them into the world, and we have to recreate the picture from the pieces.

If you really put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Music is on a higher plane than everything else in this world.

Whereas most other modern composers are engaged in manufacturing cocktails of every hue and description, I offer the public cold spring water.

I often conduct an orchestra in my sleep; my orchestras are so huge that the back desks of the violas vanish into the horizon. And everything is so wonderful.

Millions of years ago, in my previous incarnations, I must have been related to swans... because I can still feel that affinity.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

No matter how many miles I move away, my love will always remain within the boundary of your heartLines from Love Vs Destiny...

If we need the protection of men, let us first ask it from God. If we prevail with Him, the power of the most mighty and of the most wicked must minister to our relief.

If you're offended by any word in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child.

Reality is everywhere, and to find It 'you' must first disappear.

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

You see, being bald and wearing that gray starship uniform, I would have looked like a boy. I wanted to look like a sexy female.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

I think everyone must have a first memory of some house, some room, a vivid picture that will remain deep down in one forever.