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.

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.

Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.

Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

Blame the guy who doesn't speak Engish.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.

The poorest experience is rich enough for all the purposes of expressing thought

Love for life in all its forms is the basic ethic of Witchcraft.