composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations.

Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

Divine fires do not blaze each day but an artist functions in their afterglow, hoping for their recurrence.

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

It's not evil that's ruining the earth, but mediocrity. The crime is not that Nero played while Rome burned, but that he played badly.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

If music could be translated into human speech, it would no longer need to exist.

The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.

Enjoy the Bliss of just Being… Without being dependent on anything!

Without philosophy man cannot know what he makes without religion he cannot know why.

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine, Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine For me kind nature wakes her genial power, Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

I'm gonna be a character in a Happy Meal.

You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts.

God wants you to find your way back to Him, and the Savior is the way.

I have a lot of male friends.

At the highest level in the NFL, the pass game is as complex as you can imagine.