The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

Music is sonorous air.

Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.

Music is the art of sounds in the movement of time.

Together with the puzzle, Mozart gives you the solution.

Don’t discount this powerful use of appreciation. It is one of the great secrets of life. It’s the feeling and emotion of appreciation that matters most, not the lip service.

I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.

The Internet has become a tool to pick on people and ruin someone's life. I don't think parents realize what's going on.

Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Fragrance is the voice of inanimate things.

Today it is difficult to find leaders who are independent of the forces that have brought us our problems: The Congress, the bureaucracy, the lobbyists, big business, and big labor.

I have learned to cry again and I think perhaps that means I am a human being again. Perhaps that at least. A piece of human being but, yes, a human being.

My hustle is nonstop. I never stop hustling.

God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.