These, too, seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

Life and art are not two different things.

The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

This is what I think art is and what I demand of it: that it pull everyone in, that it show one person another's most intimate thoughts and feelings, that it throw open the window of the soul.

The essence of beauty is unity in variety.

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

God has entrusted me with myself.

I think the interesting aspect of life is that you're always sort of in the middle. You're never the youngest and you're never the oldest.

As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.

Everyone's so interior now, they're not really looking around them. They're on their phones.

No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances.

I want to try everything.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.

The best fashion accessory is a book.