Then let us all do what is right, strive with all our might toward the unattainable, develop as fully as we can the gifts God has given us, and never stop learning

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life ,and to help you release your happiness to others.

Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Life would be flat without music. It is the background to all I do. It speaks to the heart in its own special way like nothing else.

To play without passion is inexcusable!

What I have in my heart and soul - must find a way out. That's the reason for music.

An artist is someone who has learned to trust in himself.

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The revelations of God can come to you in a state of wakefulness or in sleep

When you get right down to it, we don’t ever want to know one another too well. We want there to be that mystery. Where there’s mystery, there’s hope.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.

I've suffered betrayal with all five senses. For over a year.

You can't change a regime on the basis of compassion. There's got to be something harder.

My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.

I think a painting is more like the real world if it's made out the real world.

You know what ego stands for: Edging Out God!