The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.

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.

If you don't start, you're finished.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

Naturalness is the easiest thing in the world to acquire, if you will forget yourself-forget about the impression you are trying to make.

I’ve always wanted to be one of those people who didn’t really care much about what people thought about them.. but I don’t think I am.

One heart is not connected to another through harmony alone. They are, instead, linked deeply through their wounds

A satisfied customer. We should have him stuffed.

For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.