The oldest, truest, most beautiful organ of music, the origin to which alone our music owes its being, is the human voice.

Music is the inarticulate speech of the heart, which cannot be compressed into words, because it is infinite.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

The purpose of art: to make the unconscious conscious.

I regard the Jewish race as the born enemy of pure humanity and everything that is noble in it.

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Imagination creates reality.

The language of tones belongs equally to all mankind, and melody is the absolute language in which the musician speaks to every heart.

It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

A political man is disgusting, but a political wife, horrible.

A Man Staying At Home All Day And Doing Nothing Could Be Worse Than A Psycho Woman.

You're not a person. We take that form. We're an essence. We're an awareness of God's. We're made up of countless, countless realities.

My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

One important thing to know is you're still the same person during it. I'm more eager than ever to do what I did. I want to do everything.

God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts.

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.

The fashions of human affairs are brief and changeable, and fortune never remains long indulgent. [Lat., Breves et mutabiles vices rerum sunt, et fortuna nunquam simpliciter indulget.]

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.

After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.