Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

Many sheep but one Shepherd.

I've always really been interested in getting to work with QVC because I love teaching people about fashion and I love seeing people get excited by what they're wearing.

Vittoria slipped off her robe. 'You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?

The sensual world cannot be avoided. We're in it at every moment. We are part of it.

Knowing your HIV status is such an easy thing to do, but again, we've created this stigma around even going to get tested.

Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.

If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.

None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.