The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

Always remember to forget the things that made you sad, but never forget to remember the things that made you glad.

Many people have asked me why there are three pedals in these grand pianos. Well the pedal in the middle is there to separate the two other pedals.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

A Smile is a curve which can set a lot of things straight.

One afternoon, when I was four years old, my father came home, and he found me in the living room in front of a roaring fire, which made him very angry. Because we didn't have a fireplace.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

I don't mind growing old. I'm just not used to it.

A mystical symphony permeates my senses and a holy lullaby embraces me.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously overcompensates a secret doubt.

There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.

I always set out to just work, as an actor, and try to do as many different things as I possibly could, and not be too selective or too careful. I think just working is fun.

Governing a large country is like frying a small fish. You spoil it with too much poking.

New things have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow.

We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.