To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

It is nothing to succeed if one has not taken great trouble, and it is nothing to fail if one has done the best one could.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.

Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so.

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

Without discipline, there can be no freedom.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

May the music rock and the guys be hot

That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.

Our most successful leaders are people who put other people first … in the long run, that’s exactly what makes them successful.

I'm very lucky that my husband is a true partner in child-rearing. If I get home late, he gets home early or vice-versa. I travel more, and he's able to spell me when I'm gone.

Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.

I don't even have a type, I don't think. My type is just whoever can get along with me.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Other guys read Playboy. I read annual reports.