Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.

When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.

By and large, musicians respect New York audiences, and also are greatly concerned about New York reviews.

If he only knew how she refuse to let him go even when he was gone ~

No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation

Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY

It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.

Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.

Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.