Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But it is not the same with words. What you do not say can haunt you.

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does.

The secret is not to make your music louder. But to make the world quieter.

There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?

One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Memories are not in places, Papa. Memories are in your mind. They're here, too.

some things you endure for a reason

At a certain point, your life is more about your legacy to your kids than anything else.

I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.

LADY BRACKNELLI had some crumpets with Lady Harbury, who seems to me to be living entirely for pleasure now.ALGERNONI hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief.

I leave Hollywood, I go somewhere else and make some music, and then, when I have to go back to work, I try and take as much that I get from outside Hollywood back with me.

To be hungry must be awful.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

The Holy Father has acted as the Vicar of Christ and acted like Christ himself, who never refused to talk to anyone.

Being on stage is about self esteem and self confidence.

There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

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