Our age of mechanization leads along a road ending with man himself as a machine. Only the spirit of singing can save us from this fate.

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.

There is no complete spiritual life without music, for the human soul has regions which can be illuminated only by music.

Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

To teach a child an instrument without first giving him preparatory training and without developing singing, reading and dictating to the highest level along with the playing is to build upon sand.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.

You are a beautiful, timeless, strong, eternal, blessed soul.

It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Looks fade. Don't get too attached.

I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

When armies are mobilized and issues joined, the man who is sorry over the fact will always win.

There was no aphrodisiac more powerful than talking, no seduction more effective than curiosity.

If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers.

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?