Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

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.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

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

An excuse will not wake up early

Never underestimate the power of pain. Once it's revealed, you would see the unexpected result coming up.

They call what we went through a problem, an experience, a dream… but we know that it’s much more than that.

In America we have an idolatry called the “adulation of youth.” Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.

Love increases through righteous restraint and decreases through impulsive indulgence.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Listening is the new prospecting.

It is always better to ask then to make an assumption.

I don't know if many people know this about me, but I have multiple sclerosis. So I don't have time for a lot of shades of gray. I don't have time for BS.