Nobody wants a fat lead singer.

Without my morning coffee I'm just like a dried up piece of roast goat.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.

Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

It is the special province of music to move the heart.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Old concept: Love is blind. Marriage is an eye opener. New concept: Love is not blind - it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.

Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

She imagined herself as some sort of vessel to be filled up with love. But it wasn't like that. The love was within her all the time, and its only renewal came from giving it away.

A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

A conductor can't be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

To understand something is to be delivered of it.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

Absorption in Imam Husayn's affairs (his life and his person, etc.), away from his missionary side is backwardness.

The only test of goods things is that they make us strong.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.