To play without passion is inexcusable!

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.

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

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

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.

...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

You must be unintimidated by your own thoughts because if you write with someone looking over you shoulder, you'll never write.

I feel like I'm a time traveler from the future who has been sent back to be annoyed.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.

I've got to watch my back, so I can't put on too much weight.

There is no better therapy than understanding.

[Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts.