Why should be elite, music? Excuse me. Music must be for everybody.

People think I'm disciplined. It is not discipline. It is devotion. There is a great difference.

One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating.

I think a life in music is a life beautifully spent, and this is what I have devoted my life to.

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other.

If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever.

You shouldn't get too close to the truth, because then maybe you stop being funny.

The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.

"Oh!" said my aunt, "I was not aware at first to whom I had the pleasure of objecting."

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

I still am champion in my own right.

You never leave a band like DHG. There's very few who are insane enough to be a part of something like that and you just can't take it out of you that easily!

I was told that I was good in my dance movement classes and that I should concentrate on dance because it would enhance my ability to get acting work.

My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.

A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of "spirit" over matter.