You repeat things because they're like your personal obsessions

A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.

I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

What is full of redundancy or formula is predictably boring. What is free of all structure or discipline is randomly boring. In between lies art.

It's best to incorporate a broadly eclectic point of view, and let whatever moves you be your inspiration.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

Whoever fear God, shall depart from evil.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

When it comes to selling stocks, it is plain that nobody can sell unless somebody wants those stocks.If you operate on a large scale you will have to bear that in mind all the time.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely.

Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

I've always been very focused on my career. But, it's good to have people [say], "Okay, you need a vacation." "I do? Oh yeah, you're right. I think I do."

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.