The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly.

I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression.

I like good company, but I like hard work still better.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov, contemning readers who "identified" with characters in fiction, remarked that the best readers identify with the artist.

If you’re not working on the best idea right now, you’re wasting your time & money

Styling is designing for obsolescence.

I have pitfalls. I have emotional responses to things that are really not about me. They're about other people.

Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit.

That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

To destroy a standing crop goes against the soundest instincts of human nature.

I really don't like conference calls to be honest. It's always something that bloody happens with a conference call - universally never works out.

Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.