We shouldn't repeat the same for ages on end, but look into the new as well.

If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Talent works, genius creates.

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

Play always as if in the presence of a master.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

When you play, do not trouble yourself as to who is listening. Yet always play as though a master listened to you.

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell?

It’s safer/ easier to follow the script and complain how broken some things are in that script, than to attempt to change those things.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

In a little town, there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

Religion itself is an absurdity and an anomaly, and paganism is acceptable only because it represents that purely orgiastic phase of religion farthest from reality.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

The aims of life are the best defense against death.

That's a nice tie... Do you have any knickers in that material?

To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.