The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Life without music is unthinkable.

It is the artists of the world, the feelers and the thinkers who will ultimately save us; who can articulate, educate, defy, insist, sing and shout the big dreams.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers.

I can't live one day without hearing music, playing it , studying it , or thinking about it .

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

There are memories that time does not erase... Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

Competition is used for discrimination. Harmony makes everything perfect.

Just as Adam produced Woman without a woman, the Virgin produced the Second Adam without a man.

every person must be good, but every person need to be an evil

I don't gamble. I invest with a risk.

Today's my wedding day, Mom," he said softly aloud. "I'm marrying the woman I always told you I would someday.

On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering.

We're invisible. I've never been here with someone else. It's different being invisible with someone.

Only that which was effective for the first of this community will be effective for the last of it

There's always a little bit of heaven, even in a disaster area.