Works of art make rules rules do not make works of art.

There is nothing more musical than a sunset.

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself.

Music is the space between the notes.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

[on Richard Wagner] A beautiful sunset that was mistaken for a dawn.

I am more and more convinced that music is not, in essence, a thing which can be cast into a traditional and fixed form. It is made up of colors and rhythms.

Listen to no one's advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind.

I love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.

We must obey the will of God and not our flesh

Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up

You cannot build a strong team unless you teach your people discipline.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.

I was the sort of person who didn't care about hairdressing and clothes and parties and boyfriends. I really wanted to be in the wild.

The real tragedy of minimum wage laws is that they are supported by well-meaning groups who want to reduce poverty. But the people who are hurt most by higher minimums are the most poverty stricken.

The bigger the crowd the better really! The noise calms your nerves.

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.