The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces.

If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

If I do not practice one day; I know it. If I do not practice the next, the orchestra knows it; if I do not practice the third day, the whole world knows it.

The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.

Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.

The very essence of success is practice.

When one is an artist, what else can he be?

Man is naturally lazy, therefore he invents labor-saving devices.

all right buddah gets a backstage pass but all his friends have to pay

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

When you're not working is when you have to stay positive and remind yourself that you're talented.

Photography - the new, rapid, concrete reflector of the world - should surely undertake to show the world from all vantage points, and to develop people's capacity to see from all sides. (1928)

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

...there's not enough ink and paper to say all I wanted.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

Happy Tuesday! Stay in the LIGHT. Hold onto positive things that elevate your spirit & be with positive people who make your life dance !