The luck of having talent is not enough one must also have a talent for luck.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Music and love are the wings of the soul.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.

To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.

The luck of having talent is not enough; one must also have a talent for luck.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings.

Only by pairing knowledge with inspiration will art evolve. Without these conditions any musician will remain a flawed artist, if one may speak of an artist at all.

Bach is Bach just as God is God.

Always think that there will be no one there for you, cause in a rainy day the percentage of people that will not be willing to help you 99.9 %.

Hope is an earnest expectation.

How typical of a machine to think it knows better.

No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.

Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

I tried softball and soccer. I just didn't take as much of a liking to it as I did sitting in a movie theater and watching people recreate a story, and doing it myself, as well.

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

The education of the will is the object of our existence.

The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.