What is to reach the heart must come from above; if it does not come from thence, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit.

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.

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.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Faith gives self-confidence, self-courage and strength.

His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

Sometimes, you just have to take a step back and realise what's important in your life, what you can live with, and more importantly, what you can't live without.

Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?

I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

My memories of them had rubbed thin with overuse, worn to frail color transparencies flickering on the walls of my mind...